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halfway to Memphis
the king of nothin' at all black crows on the fences sailin' through Arkansas dreampt you had a daughter and she slept in my arms at the motel pool by the water
I carried her to the car
and I've been dreamin' about oceans like dyin' in my sleep
the smell of kools and suntan lotion just sinkin' into the deep
I've been hoarding my emotions the clutter its out of hand dreamin' about Kentucky like it was some kind of promised land
all these grainy memories splashed across the walls trinkets trash and treasures all flood down the hall
and I'm crossin' over the state line withdrawal and all halfway to Memphis the king of nothin' at all
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Blue Healer
03:01
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I bought a bottle of red and slept on the beach rememberin' those cozy times with her hidin' up there under the sheets the sinister waves lurkin' just out of reach lickin' my wounds through the dream bottom ooze the blood salt and sea
a cross on the wall a rat in the street roaches down the halls of the ghost island hotel fantasy
all the little ways she was sweet to me like lost jewelry and gold the candy memories unfold
rotting my brains' crooked teeth and I'm goin' down to that dirty ocean
goin'
down to where it says DO NOT SWIM
I'm goin down in the toxic water goin' down to the rock bottom
gonna rise up and sail again
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Key West
04:15
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comin' down the purple hills the pink pills wrapped up in cigarette cellophane the blank spaces I can't fill
fresh kills out the interstate and its mornin' again
Its always mornin again hopin I’m not too late born too late
out of time out of state plates
Actin’ like a gumshoe
Lonely women and cheap booze searchin' for a clue for your next move actin' like à gum shoe
In that tropical monsoon
Through the dirty traffic
with the Miami blues
and I've listened to all you lies checked off ail your alibis only the best daddy money can buy anything neglected I’m none the wise and they say its almost always somebody close
You’d least suspect right under your nose
But the truth is what I need the most
My eyes could see it but my mind just won’t
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Vacancy Sign
03:34
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a vacancy sign flashin' red a seconal kind of a night shitty motel room empty bed a dead man's float kid's out there swimmin' pretend in here its all too real on the shinin' linoleum
strange shadows creepin' passed the curtain
like a creature across the floor houses burnin' no sleep at all all teeth and claws cold sweaty sheets tossin' and turnin'
future trains future cities nerves and veins exposed electricity comin' in waves shakes and craves
a heated pool cable t.v. air conditioning
my fingers all yellow and stained nails all torn and frayed
"Have a pleasant stay" on the soap and ashtray these lazy bones laid to waste these lazy bones waylaid
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Anywhere with You
03:26
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anywhere with you
That’s where I wanna live
nowhere motel room by the ocean
I don't care where you've been what you did
or who with
You fell into this dream broke through the skin
the tear away blues beneath a glowin exit sign a sadness blasted through a childhood of lies smoldered in a darkness hollow, eyed In the neon light
anywhere with you don't you leave my sight
inside this gin palace a lovely tropical breeze a fever like a crown the gods adorned me its been years on a bender and no I'm not ready to leave anywhere with you pour us another drink
and dance with me darlin a torn gown of sea and sand dance with me darlin' to a far
Off forgotten land,
slippin' into madness a place to go to feel free anywhere with you my sweet
aisling
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Grace (Walls of Nowhere)
03:31
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Oh my darlin' my dear my solitude
these precious dirty avenues
the bar room nurses the orphaned dreams
the slippin' the stranglehold around the neck around the bottle fingers drug along the walls
of nowhere
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fallin'. from grace fallin' free
angel face
me she no longer needs
head hung down back into town carryin' it all around the shame like an umbrella my shadow and its cast the sad drunkards laugh my baby she's gone with some other fella
fallin' from grace fallin' free
angel face me
I
can do as
I
please
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Shake the Dice
04:51
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Cincinnati mud still on my feet a stranger in a strange land haunted rooms thirteen the sun goin' down
down on my head full of dreams hangin' out the window to blow smoke out at the sea
comin' up the mornin still ill with them hopes she’ll come back to me
a horse a tree a rope reachin' for that drink coughin' up that dope somewhere outside'Omaha down in that tall grass a dirty gas station bathroom stall
a plane'
'flyin' over head
I imagine its yours.
sun comes up just hangs from the night before
just twenty bucks and a broke shoelace numbers and luck in a peelin' suitcase cold backrooms with them yellow shades doom and gloom whatever it takes
shake the dice sleep on the floor with all the bastard children in this cold cold world just some sad eyed son of some Vegas whore
rollin' snake eyes in Satans paradise for the poor
somewhere outside Reno up in them tall hills all scattered in them bones a beggar and a thief in his teeth a dead rose my home just another place
I've never known
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The lie of Love
02:26
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stumblin' in the sun all up Paradise beach eyes all red and swollen all sick with grief
plastered on the plaza wall for all eager eyes to see
how bein' gone ain't no help at all
I'm missin' you constantly
passin' by on the street school girls turn and laugh all shy and sweet darkness falls the canyon calls half dead dogs followin' me
ocean roads, only heaven knows sunsets you wouldn't believe but after all the pain I caused
Paradise just spoils in me
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I never could
02:32
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I never could, could I call you mine
I’ve had some chances.
and every time I lied
and its strange to see your face everywhere I turn
searchin' for a place
and at night when I close my eyes but I never could could I call you mine
and I don't believe we said goodbye did we
that day you left me standin' on the street
cryin' watchin' you leave
wishin' I could turn back the time go back there and do things right, accept your love and not hide mine
but I never could could I call you mine
and its strange to see your face in this motel room
in all my disgrace
drunk and Iosin' my mind but I never could
could I call you mine
no not in this life could I call you mine
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Toxic Love
03:00
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hang a blanket on the window babe cover up all the holes in the shades the cure I found out behind the arcade
the outside outside it can stay inside here we could be anyplace all alone together we could lose track of the days
hand in glove toxic love washed up on the dirty shores of the sun
sometime babe who knows when out of control this old world is bound to spin
it's my Paradise Waitin with you til then
our fate we could tease and tempt this life anyways it's just an accident the shadows they just follow me in like a kitten in I welcome them
hand in glove a toxic love washed up on the dirty shores of the sun changin' the plan callin’ the man
and I'll be back baby fast as I can
wait for me under the palm trees in the desert sands
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Wil Cope Austin, Texas
a kool breez through Texas summer nightime streets
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