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Blood Meridian

from Dig On Down by Heather Thomas

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Written as part of the Bushwick Book Club, Blood Meridian is inspired by the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.

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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

credits

from Dig On Down, released March 1, 2024
Recorded at The Carriage House in Silver Lake, Los Angeles
Produced by Sheldon Gomberg
Engineered by Kevin Smith
Vocals and ukulele by Heather Thomas
Guitar by Fred Tackett
Keyboards by Will Gramling
Upright Bass by Chris Rolontz
Mandolins by Scott Gates
Violin by Gabe Witcher

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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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