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Blood Meridian
04:11
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There rode a soul
not six feet tall
with puckered grin
no hiding sins
behind the drunken curling lips
Shifting boots and then it hits
Quit the patchwork soldiers
with their gnawing black teeth
Written for the west
with chains of pumice
Riding snow-blind for that burnt horizon
I am not afraid, they say as bullets rip and ricochet
Severed hands and bleeding heels
sulfur stains and crooked wheels
I am not a dead man yet
how sure we are of what we get
Until that dry day once you let the hangman
Dark the din of tavern spits
with woodsmoke, sweat and poison pits
Behind the drunken curling lips
shifting boots and then it hits
I'll shoot you where you stand
if I can tell what kind of man you are
Or run you down the wicker cliffside
take the pistol from your cold hide
Then come days of begging, days of theft
Days of riding where there rode no soul
save the wretched, wicked
One man gone and another with him
Riders on a storm of sand
the boulders tower, exhale
as the cracked hooves of their wind-beat horses
Trudge past thicket, bones and scorched limbs
I am not afraid they say as bullets rip and ricochet
Severed hands and bleeding heels
sulfur stains and crooked wheels
I am not a dead man yet
how sure we are of what we get
Until that cold night once you let the hangman
take your final breath
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I'm stuck on the side of the road
Nowhere to go but home
And no way to get there
Spent my last dollar last night
Figured that I'd be alright
But now I'm stuck out here in nowhere
ooooooh
And if I had one more problem I just might not get by
But I have been here before and I'm too tired
I'm too tired to hear you told me so I won't admit
I'm in this same old situation
And I can't keep crossing my fingers
Tellin' myself I can't help it
When I'm stuck on the side of the road
Glad I'm not too far from home
Suppose I could start walking
Could get there by morning
It's been three long days I've been gone
Thought I learned my lesson but this one, I got it all wrong ooooooh
And if I had one more problem I just might not get by
But I have been here before and I'm too tired to cry
You've gotta find out what it is you want before you die
But if you find yourself mixed up in trouble and pain
If you find yourself back on that highway again
Put on your jacket, call up a friend
Figure out why this keeps happening
I'm too tired to hear you told me so I won't admit
I'm in this same old situation
And I can't keep crossing my fingers
Tellin' myself I can't help it
No I won't keep tellin' myself I can't help it
When I'm stuck on the side of the road
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If I Die
02:27
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If I die, twenty two dollars in my fist,
cinnamon brandy on my lips,
take me downtown to rest on a cotton bed with a silk pillowcase
Take off my clothes and shave my head,
Don't let them dare pronounce me dead
Tell all my friends alive that I've crossed the light
and I'm still tellin' it
Yeah I'm still tellin' it
Oooh ooh ooh ooh Don't let me die
Oooh ooh ooh ooh Don't let me die
Oooh ooh ooh ooh Don't let me die
If I die, twenty two dollars in my fist,
cinnamon brandy on my lips,
take me downtown to rest on a cotton bed with a silk pillowcase
Take off my clothes and shave my head,
Don't let them dare pronounce me dead
Tell all my friends alive that I've crossed the light
and I'm still tellin' it
Yeah I'm still tellin' it
Oooh ooh ooh ooh don't let me die
Oooh ooh ooh ooh don't let me die
Oooh ooh ooh ooh don’t let me die
If I die, twenty two dollars in my fist,
cinnamon brandy on my lips,
take me downtown to rest on a cotton bed with a silk pillowcase
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Heather Thomas Nashville, Tennessee
Drummer and singer/songwriter with a knack for melody and evocative lyrics. New single If I Die out July 7th
release show at Dee's Country Cocktail Lounge 7pm
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