Entry to the 2021 AIM Contest, in the genre of... dystopian western?

Inspired by the wonderful @AnyGreenDeath's piece Nobody and Stranger Poster. I've been following his work for a bit now but coming across this piece really sparked something for me. The color work and the stories that came to mind just looking at the faces of these two characters really made me want to write something that captured the feeling of the piece (my experience of it any way).

It's the first time I've tried incorporating some elements of fiction in my song writing and I really loved the experience. Thanks again so much to AnyGreenDeath for being cool with my interpretting your work like this. Go follow the guy, his art rules.

Track wise, it's synths, banjos, a drum sequencer, recorded field sounds and some doofy reverb and distortion thrown in for good measure.That repeating echoey synth at the upper end of the mix is the same one I used throughout Fake Sun with a different sequence.

Almost ended up abandoning the whole instrumental for another until I accidentally played it sped up and then built the track up from there. Might be some things being slightly off tune wise because of that but I think I got it squared off decently enough...

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE FRONT PAGE (and to whoever read this far through the description, you kinda rule too ^.^)

Lyrics:

No I ain't going home just yet

I'm too young for your regrets

Right where I'm supposed to be

Nobody here right next to me

Always know your escape route

Don't get close on the way out

I'm right where I'm supposed to be

Nobody here right next to me

You talk about Strangers

but I've known you my whole life

Roll on into the ghost town

haunted soul and holy ground

3 months to the day

Stranger's gone, Nobody stayed

I'm not alone

just been drifting for so long

We're not alone

it's just better not to haunt you in your home

it's just better not to haunt you in your--