With the Redmption Choir (featuring Chris Osti, Derek Downham, Ben Kobayashi and JP Polsoni) at his back , The High Cost of Low Living features a blistering collection of new songs.

Tearing through rock's back pages and borrowing from country, pop, punk and new wave, HDRC has blended Dillon's musical eclecticism - without foregoing the very essence of everything that rock 'n roll means.

The High Cost of Low Living

Surface of the Sun

You may sit and cry on this lonely night waiting around playing with fire but it's alright the best part you ain't got to yet you may not decide if it's wrong or right with you're less than perfect life tonight but it's alright you'll figure it out yourself curiosity got the best of me this time but it won't shake my destiny completely got away from me I don't know my limit and my strength to see telephone I'm gunna be there soon I'm gunna catch a cab I'm gunna leave my room but it's alright the best part I ain't got to yet sitting in the sun with my head in the sand I don't give a damn about the words they're saying just trying to learn how not to get burned but the surface of the sun is always raging curiosity got the best of me this time but it won't shake my destiny just trying to learn how not to get burned but the surface of the sun is always raging yeah you can sit and cry on this lonely night waiting around again to decide but it's alright it ain't as far as you'd expect you may not decide if it's wrong or right with your less than perfect life tonight but it's alright you'll figure it yourself sitting in the sun with my head in the sand I don't give a damn about the words they're saying just trying to learn how not to get burned but the surface of the sun is always raging curiosity got the best of me this time but it won't shake my destiny just trying to learn how not to get burned but the surface of the sun is always raging yeah it's always raging.

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Number on The Wall

Met him in my dreams the cat is so elusive uh-huh you know were damned he don't do interviews uh-huh got it all you might just think it's foolish but it's living in the night and it's buried in the music living in the night you know I understand it buried in my heart you know its heavy handed you ever get the sense that you've run out of chances I don't really know it's just the number on the wall tonight The numbers on the wall tonight The numbers on the wall Body is contorted my soul is a chameleon uh-huh well he don't play a sport I'm sure that he will be one uh huh you got it all it's headed to the ceiling you know I hit it hard and I think he lost the feeling living in the night you know I understand it buried in my heart you know its heavy handed ever get the sense that you've run out of chances I don't really know i just know that ain't the plan man living in the night you know I understand it buried in my heart you know it's heavy handed you ever get the sense that you've run out of chances I don't really know I just know that ain't the plan man and I know that that dreams right and I know that I'll keep trying and I know that I've gone and dialed another number on the wall tonight The numbers on the wall tonight

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Radio Plays

A long distance carrier pigeon flying in from Hollywood or hell and nobody was really sure nobody could really tell at all if it was my imagination or just my situation and the radio the radio made me and the radio the radio plays station to station into the night into tomorrow and the rest of our lives into the future into the light into forever until everything's quiet the radio plays the radio plays now I hadn't changed I was just different man I was just thinking to myself that nobody was really sure nobody could really tell at all if it was my imagination or just my situation and the radio the radio made me and the radio the radio plays station to station into the night into tomorrow and the rest of our lives into the future into the light into forever until everything's quiet the radio plays a long distance carrier pigeon flying in from Hollywood or hell and nobody was really sure nobody could really tell at all if it was my imagination or just my situation and the radio the radio made me and the radio the radio plays station to station into the night into tomorrow and the rest of our lives into the future into the light into forever until everything's quiet the radio plays

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Microscope

take it apart in the dark shaving seconds from the previous minute I will turn and face almost anything anyplace for a new beginning and all the toy guns are loaded and every game show host knows the answers I don't well you find yourself under a microscope under the influence or under oath you know I know take it apart in the dark man my hands shaped into a pistol well it's all give and take until the memories fade the futures sitting off in the distance and all the toy guns are loaded and every schoolboy knows the hiding places I don't well you find yourself under a microscope under the influence or under oath you know I know and you find yourself unable to cope under the microscope under the influence I know yeah born under a falling star just to be here and in it I will turn and face almost anything anyplace for a new beginning and all the toy guns are loaded and every game show host knows the answers I don't well you find yourself under a microscope under the influence or under oath you know I know and you find yourself unable to cope under the microscope under the influence I know and you find yourself

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What it Takes

Don't think straight I would have never seen this side of you not in a hundred million years not for a hundred million years I stay up late sticking pins into a doll of you nothing ever seems to clear not for a hundred million years and the song you're singing it's just the song you sing I'm not waiting for the sun to shine today not looking for the great escape no waiting for the world to turn my way and that's okay it's what it takes everyday you walk into my heart again and everything you killed you did it for the thrills I disappeared back into my mind again and everything you've heard don't believe a word and the war you're waging has all been staged not waiting for the sun to shine today not looking for the great escape no waiting for the world to turn my way and that's okay it's what it takes and I say goodbye to you you say goodbye to me and that's just all it means And I say goodnight to you you say goodnight to me the rest is just a dream I stayed up late sticking pins into myself again and nothing ever worked in fact it just got worse I'm not waiting for the sun to shine today not looking for the great escape no waiting for the world to turn my way and that's okay it's what it takes I say goodbye to you you say goodbye to me the rest is just a dream

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Well On Your Way

Well I kissed the stars and the police cars and that little voice I choose to accept and now I turn around and I walk away and quicken my step well you know that your well on your way at this point it's safe to say your well on your way now I kissed the ground and I've been forced to run And I've been limited thinking that way and I turn around and I learn to face everyday well you know that your well on your way and this point it's safe to say your well on your way well I have kissed the stars and the police cars and that little voice don't go away and I turn around and I've learned to face everyday well you know the decisions made at this point it's safe to say your well on your way Well you know that you're well on your way at this point it's safe to say you're well on your way

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My Mistakes

If you count on my mistakes I would have to walk away I just could not take another yesterday I've not the strength to fade away now if I admit defeat tell me what then will that mean will I cease to be or will I be redeemed or will it be the end of me and you ought to know by now   to get out from under that cloud that took all my power and it's the only thing that counts well I smile as I stand here today with all the mistakes I've made now in my darkest night they're the brightest stars in the sky if you count on my mistakes I would have to walk away I just could not take another yesterday I have not the strength to fade away you ought to know by now to get out from under that cloud that took all my power and it's the only thing that counts well I smile as I stand here today with all the mistakes I've made now in my darkest night they're the brightest stars in the sky If you count on my mistakes I would have to walk away I just could not take another yesterday I've not the strength to fade away

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Gods Have Spoken

It's like the gods have spoken just when pressure meets the torment watching the ceiling and the storm end watch it collide watching the motion to focus everything on voltage And taking the time to turn the tide singing somewhere down the stream I'm wasting time just when the thought is frozen a world away and you know it and when we're really listening listening so much closer what is it we're missing the skyline hears the ocean I'm waiting until I can think a way to explain away today I waiting until I get there and when the fight is over just when the pressure eats the boredom watching the ceiling and the storm end hitching a ride watching the ocean a world away and you know it taking the time to turn the tide singing somewhere down the stream I'm wasting time it's just when the world moves closer a thought away and you know it and when we're really listening listening so much closer what is it we're missing the skyline hears the ocean I'm waiting until I get there a way to explain away today A way to explain a way today

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Sentimental Me

Yesterday came and went like any other day and I close my eyes and I looked away yesterday came and went like any other day and somethings changed and I can't explain it And when the sun has faded maybe it's the sentimental me everyone has got some of that and it's alright here to see And when the sun has faded maybe it's the sentimental me everyone has got some of that if I could chase the second hand around the face of every moment I have wasted I wouldn't change a single thing I have no regrets and I'm not that patient

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Ten Feet Tall

So the way she walks it's like she's ten feet tall she's got a sound coming through the wall she's gotta vibe she'll kick it down the hall she's got the whole damn thing finger on a pulse she's gotta a mind throw it the air I got a signal you know I'm already there come on don't need to bleed that star just to figure it out don't always need to know what it's all about maybe break your back maybe knock you out you know there ain't no one here baby but yourself she's got it all you know it's blowing my mind she's got a beat she's never behind and I believed her and see it in her eyes she had to make me laugh before she could made me cry she's gotta a mind throw it the air I got a signal you know I'm already there don't need to bleed that star just to figure it out don't always need to know what it's all about maybe break your back maybe knock you out you know there ain't no one here baby but yourself

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Puzzle I Am

Never settle down my baby never settle up just lock the doors and drive like crazy until the wheels fall off and you changed my mind now honey reconfigured my soul disrupted my corruption I close my eyes and let go and you look so beautiful when you don't give a damn you had the missing piece to the puzzle I am The puzzle I am And there were no easy answers nothing was what it seemed that applies to everyone else except you and me when I met up with you honey that time in the past we re-wrote the future and we started from scratch and you look so beautiful when you don't give a damn and you had the missing piece to the puzzle I am we were so reckless honey when opportunity knocked took the wheel and drove like crazy and we still haven't stopped we shone a little light in the shadows took the night from the day smile a little more than I used to and I like it that way and you are so beautiful when you don't give a damn you had the missing piece to the puzzle I am the puzzle I am

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Inch by Inch

Inch by inch the days move in threatening to change my world again my two cents I've thrown in you know I'm banking on magnificence and all I did was flip a coin where to rebuild or destroy I wasn't trying to make a point the best decision that I never made call it luck or call it fate now everything has changed nothing to do with trying to win that fact that I'm here means I already did inch by inch my mind moves in threatening to change my world again and all I did was flip a coin where to rebuild or destroy I wasn't trying to make a point the best decision that I never made call it luck or call it fate now everything has changed Now everything has changed Inch by inch has become a game A little degree and it's not the same Its inch by inch Inch by inch my mind moves in threatening to change my world again and all I did was flip a coin where to rebuild or destroy I wasn't trying to make a point the best decision that I never made call it luck or call it fate now everything has changed Now everything has changed

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