Here we go ‘round the prickly pear
Ain’t no one worth talking to in there 
Seeing, feeling, smell the ruin 
The inexplicable isn’t worth doing 

Come find me

Line up the animals two by two
To enter the domain of the déjà vu
The ship may float but the world will sink 
Under the rivers of God’s missing link

Come find me there 
Away from the pain 
The dislocation of being 
Unwelcoming terrain 

The fountain will one day be a lake 
The real McCoy would rather be fake 
And try on some wholesome pseudonym 
Thank every last star you'll never be him

Then come find me 

© 2023, 2025 by K. C. Dovoric / Broken Pilgrim Songs (All rights reserved) 

(From the album ‘Citizens,’ rec. Feb.—Mar., 2025)

One Less Next Day

“Progressive-Folk-Alternative-Country-Blues Rock”

The Overman is NJ-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, author and educator Keith Charles Dovoric, noted for his unusual song-arrangements across a wide palette of genres, and for lyrics dealing with philosophical themes of religion, aging, death, mental illness, natural disasters and personal relationships. Of the lyrics, Mr. Dovoric says, “My little songs are essentially comments on the human condition, which though apparently bleak and dark still has the remote potential for a ray of light to peak through and illuminate things. And what seems like, in my work, acidulous harshness is really just tough love.”

Primary influences include artists like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Rush, Talking Heads, Neil Young, Lucinda Williams, the Doors, Warren Zevon, Marillion, Pink Floyd and Genesis; as well as writers such as Milton, Swift, Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Camus, Kerouac, Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, T. S. Eliot, James Baldwin, Ayn Rand, Saul Bellow and Cormac McCarthy. 

All tracks from the latest Overman effort, ‘Citizens,’ are now available on SoundCloud. Stay tuned for updates on the forthcoming album, eponymously titled ‘The Overman.’