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Down To The River
06:28
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Standing in a hallway
Of an Empire of Emptiness
October wind through the doorway
Like a ghost of the wilderness
My existence is tremblin’ right down to the bone
When you really get down to it
All I got left is silver and gold
Down to the river
In the pale moonlight
If my Lord don’t deliver
The river gonna swallow me tonight
When I was much younger
I never count a wasted day
Just always bought another
When you’re young you buy
The days with pocket change
Had a hand full of women
And a diamond cane at my side
Now these days when I take women home
There just ain’t no honey in their pie
Down to the river
In the pale moonlight
If my lord don’t deliver
The river gonna swallow me tonight
God send me a word
Make it straight and true
I don’t care what it is
As long as it ain’t something I’m used to
Got an imported ceiling
Got seven guest rooms
Ten different tailors
My clothes have been woven on a golden loom
I got everything you probably ever wanted
But that’s all my life can lend
I got a million connections
But I ain’t got no friends
Down to the river
In the pale moonlight
If my Lord don’t deliver
The river gonna swallow me tonight
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2. |
Burning Star
05:21
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I am disgusted with my point of view
My unwillingness to let go of
Things that teach nothing new
This is the moment to remember
This is the moment to forget
My life is either a miracle
Or a mistake they failed to catch
Like a burning star
Crawlin’ out of the ashes
Of our desperate neurotic love
I don’t know why I left you
Just tired of something I can’t understand
I’m looking for a home
But home ain’t a place I ever want to be
Got to get something change something
Something has got to give
Like a burning star
Like a burning star
I'm wasted in the late hour
Without a compass or moral
My mouth is full of garbage
My eroticism is on the shelf
Bluebirds flying in and out of my conscience
They’re there to justify when I hurt someone
I’m the first one to be honest
Except when it comes to myself
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3. |
Wrestling With Can
03:38
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Why haven’t you shown favour?
Why does my song fall on deaf ears?
Trees grow tall all around me
I’m in the decay of the morning dew
Waiting with all the warnings
The echo of my name
I have lost my patience
That’s why I’ve been wrestling with Cain
Your wisdom it leaves me hanging
You’re out of touch with all these aspirations
What is the point to go on pleasing
Oh my Lord I am out of range
I have given my all, time after time
But I still got one thing left to give
A great divide between the losers
And the losers who find anyway to win
Waiting with all the warnings
The echo of my name
I have lost my patience
That’s why I’ve been wrestling with Cain
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4. |
Ain't No Satisfaction
04:00
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Well, Well, Well
Won’t you bring me some water
My hands are just about fallin’ off of this plough
Hard to understand why I’ve been
Held by sorrow
There ain’t no satisfaction in tomorrow
Well I’m prayin’ on my mother
Got a fever in my head and salt in my eyes
I crawl on a bloody knee through
The misty moonlit forest
Beneath 57 dead lilies her body lies
Well I’m prayin’ on my father
I’m hear to tell em’ that these shoes I’m walkin’ in ain’t no better than his
He’s off somewhere pissin’ off of some
Barroom table
Or pissed off swingin’ his everlasting pitiful fist
Well I’m prayin’ on some sweet stranger
Come heal the disease beneath my chest
They see not the deuce I’ve been dealt
Only danger
Scared there might be a joker concealed beneath my vest
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Devil's Bed
05:42
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Desert in your eyes
Vacancy in your room
Stain each other’s bellies
With the milk of the moo
Sleepin’ in a Devil’s Bed
I’m going nowhere
You’re going nowhere too
Let’s spend the night together
Do the things that nowhere people do
Sleepin’ in a Devil’s Bed
Stars have gone out
And the satellite is dead
I kind of like that funny feelin
I’m getting’ in both of my heads
Sleepin’ in a Devil’s Bed
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Jack Harlan Calgary, Alberta
Lyrical firestorms, foot stomping and soft introspection of Alternative Folk, Indie & Experimental Roots.
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