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Like a house with broken windows,
The voices waft out and waft in.
Painted words on the crumbled drywall,
Lists all of the bad men I've been.
And the weeds push through the cracked foundation,
as the earth reclaims my mistakes,
And the wind through broken windows cries.
ahh oooh...
Like a house with broken windows,
with shards of glass under foot.
Rays of light beam through the ceiling,
That fell into ashes and soot.
I can hear the long haul semis on the highway,
Their horns howling low and alone.
As the wind through broken windows cries
Ahhh oooh.
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Down The Ravine
02:04
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When the tar black night pulls the full moon out
And the fog rolls into the trees
We'll be dancing where the shadows collide
I'll take you down there
Down the ravine.
Tell your mama that you're gonna be out all night
Tell your daddy not to intervene
Tell your sister that she better be ready to ride
Ain't no taxis down the ravine.
And the wind will yowl
And the ground will growl
And the wolves will howl
Can you hear it?
There are stories of orgies of darkness and light
Of the sainted and the obscene.
Where the souls get sold to the devil's delight.
He comes collectin' down the ravine.
Tell your mama you gotta go wander
Tell your daddy you wanna be free
Gonna play with impiety yonder
And taste the midnight down the ravine.
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They're dragging the lake on the Day of the Dead
Pulled out the body but they can't find the head
Bangin' the drums and rollin' the bones
Been walking these streets since I woke up alone
My love lies deep in dark despondence
Tears of grief, tears of loss tears of love
And I look on with gentle fondness
Can't seem to find the me she's speaking of
Cherrytops blaze in the gathering dark
Little kids gape through the fence at the park
Watching from here like i'm part of the throng
The party's for me but I can't play along
The mad parade, so loud and gaudy
Screams of life, screams of life screams of life
But I'm lost here without my body
Facing night, only night, always night
They're dragging the lake on the day of the dead
The muddy shore calls me to come back to bed
Banging the drums and rolling the bones
Now I don't know how to unknow the unknowns
The mad parade has turned the corner
My love wears black and prays upon her knees
I slip away before I warn her
Things here are not the way we thought they'd be
Draggin' the lake... draggin' the lake
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The sky’s the bluest, that I’ve never seen.
The hills are dressed in the deepest shade of green.
The birds are singing songs as old as time,
Are they digging your grave,
Or are they digging mine?
The smell of grass rides on a lazy breeze
That shakes the leaves on a shady tree.
A gentle wave laps on the splayed shoreline,
Are they digging your grave
Or are they digging mine?
Are they digging mine?
I don’t want to die,
Are they digging mine?
From a little baby laughing carelessly,
To the darkest monster hanging from a tree
We will take our slumber in the Great Divine,
Are they digging your grave
Or are they digging mine?
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You don’t see me,
but I love you just the same.
I would ride in the afternoon
You'd follow after, with a hickory broom
You’d pass the bottle when I got dry
And brush away the blue tail fly
You don’t see me,
But I see you just the same
I’d ride around on grandpa’s farm
The flies so numerous, they did swarm
I was bitten on my woeful thigh
The devil take the blue tail fly, singing
You don’t see me,
But I’m with you just the same
You laid me under a persimmon tree
My epitaph is there to see
"Beneath this stone, I'm forced to lie
Victim of the blue tail fly"
You don’t see me,
But I’m in you just the same
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6. |
The Interstate
04:37
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I know that southbound train's a-cryin'
Must be 20 miles away.
I'd take some other road
But there's no use in tryin'
I can't drive on the Interstate.
These rails are murder on my axles.
I hear them scratch and screech away.
I don't know how much longer
They can keep on grinding
But I can't drive on the Interstate.
I know that southbound train's a'comin'
Must be 15 miles away.
It ain't got many stops
To give me time to think
But I can't drive on the Interstate.
I hear the sirens in the distance
They're adding more along the way.
They haven't found me yet
So they just keep on driving
Up and down on the Interstate.
Remember how we'd go out dancin'?
Been 20 years if it's a day.
We'd put the top down
and we'd blast the radio
And we'd drive down the Interstate.
Why did you have to keep on pushing?
Why did you have to test my rage?
You knew my trigger's spent
And anything could trip it
Now I can't drive on the Interstate.
My tears know you're not here beside me
The love you gave I choked away.
I don't know why
But the sirens are all fading
Ain't no sounds from the Interstate.
I hear that southbound train's a'comin'.
Its maybe half a mile away.
I ran out of crossroads
And the tracks lead to a bridge
And I can't get to the Interstate.
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7. |
One Cut
03:21
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I can’t leave you my sweetheart my darling
You’re part of my heart and my soul
We’re commingled, entwined, both body and mind
When you’re with me our two halves are whole
I pull the blanket of darkness around me
Hide where the sun cannot see
Thoughts of trouble and strife as I finger the knife
But I know that one cut sets me free
Yes I know that one cut sets me free.
I can’t leave you my dearest, my lover
I owe you my tenuous life
You’ve been my support, my dock and my port
Since the minister made me your wife
We are all such delicate vessels
Just help together with skin
But under that fragile gift wrapping
All of humankind’s evils within
All of humankind’s evil within
I can’t leave you my angel my sweetheart
I live only to save you from pain
I took on the burden of saving your soul
When I took on your ring and your name
But the blackness embraces me gently
I’m sure that you know and agree
We both must relinquish the pain and the sin
And I know that one cut sets you free
Yes I know that one cut sets us free
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You Never Really Know
03:18
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You never really know
When the other shoe is droppin’
When the curtain’s gonna call
When the revenuer’s knockin’
For all your home made bathtub alcohol
No matter if you swear you control your winds of fortune
And master all the forces above you and below
You boast, you crow,
But you never really know
You never really know
If there’s madness in the method
And was that madness overdue
When you’re reading between the lines
If the lines are really reading you
And will you be aware of your midnight sayonara
And take the down elevator to your final home?
You reap, you sow
But you never really know.
It whispers in your ear
Something fatally magnetic
Some jagged Juliet to your ragged Romeo
So sweet, so low
You’ll never really know
You never really know
When the gold doesn’t glitter
When the wheel doesn’t turn
When the brimstone hits the fan
Your bridges aren’t the only thing you’ll burn
And oh you’ll tear your robes
And confess you are a sinner
And throw your self upon the mercy you could never show
You’ll never really know.
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Say what you want but your words will fail
Tomorrow's gonna hunt you down.
Try what you might But you won't prevail
Tomorrow's gonna hunt you down.
Draggin that leg as the shadows grow
Wolves are howlin on the hill
Still
‘Til today you’ve been safe and sound
Tomorrow's gonna hunt you down.
Build your walls and your barricades
Tomorrow’s gonna make you cry.
Scheme escapes but your bed is made,
Tomorrow’s gonna make you cry.
Plead your case to the darkest court
Pray Hell's punishment is brief
Thief!
Evil just eats and will served you fried.
Tomorrow’s gonna make you cry.
Soon you’ll be a forgotten stain
Outlived by everything you hate
Fate
Weights your chains and removes your crown
Tomorrow’s gonna hunt you down.
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10. |
Dance Skeletons Dance
03:46
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I rode the rails of ghost trains
of haunted hopes and shameful refrains.
Instead of closeting all I recant
I'll set them free, dance skeletons dance.
Come on and dance you skeletons dance.
Come on and dance you skeletons dance.
I've hung my head bemoaning my crimes
and I'd repent for my spent feral prime.
My sad sack world of skewed circumstance
It's time to dance, you skeletons dance.
Come on and dance you skeletons dance.
Come on and dance you skeletons dance.
My better angels surrendered their wings
Now I don't care about anything
Instead of pining for lame happenstance
I'm gonna dance to my skeletons' dance
Come on and dance you skeletons dance.
Come on and dance you skeletons dance.
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Stuart Pearson Los Angeles, California
“Dark Americana: Stories and Songs”: sepia-toned, dog-eared vistas of America’s struggles with sin and redemption that jumps
cobwebbed eras from the 1860’s to the 1960’s. hollywoodtrax.bandcamp.com/album/dark-americana-stories-and-songs
"Dark Americana 2: Mohave" reflects the desert: dark folk, rustic, dangerous, in ruins and foreboding; breathing hallucinatory American mythology.
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