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3 Feet From A Vein

from American Gothic by Stuart Pearson

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This song is about Seldom Seen Slim. A real life prospector who lived by himself in an abandoned miner town in Nevada. Here he is taking his final breath, surrounded by angels.

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3 FEET FROM A VEIN
Stuart Pearson/Hunter Lowry
I was born in an orphanage
Jumped a train on a burning bridge
For some echoes and some acreage
Three feet from a vein
I was the gleam in a dusty eye
An evening of coyote lullabies
A wild burro flicking off the flies
Three feet from a vein

Gather round, you angels, sing

I casted shadows that were seldom seen
Slim and dirty like a philistine
St Peter fetch me in a limousine
Three feet from a vein
A rusty bucket with a sun bleached soul
A leprechaun without a pot of gold
Always chasing down a mother load
Just three feet from a vein.

If dreams came true
It would rain Mezcal
And this ghost town would come alive
And they'd name that mountain after me
Singing songs about the day I died.

A man will do what his daddy did
Because he did what his daddy did
Because he did what his daddy did
Three feet from a vein.

That’s all I ever was
All I ever tried to be
What’s it like up there?
Is there room for me?

It’s a starbright celebration
Come home to me

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from American Gothic, released November 10, 2023
Everything played and/or messed with by Stuart Pearson.

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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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