Monday, March 12, 2012

WINDING DOWN THE ROAD MUD RECORDS APRIL 2012

Whiskey Sings Like Angels

Late at night whiskey sings like angels


Sings like shadows seems like something

Might need forgiving maybe never needed

Nothing like it come the light of day



I’m stumbling down my car get in it don’t get far

In that hot Virginia morning I’m still drunk It’s how I am

I pull off a mountain mile or so some Church parking lot and smile

Cause maybe I already know and I’ve known it for awhile

Just how this song’s going to end Before long I’ll be gone



Late at night whiskey sings like angels

Sings like shadows seems like something

Might need forgiving maybe never needed

Nothing like it come the light of day



And the words they find their own tongue

I make them up I go along don’t matter much to me I swear

I get it right I get it wrong The last hours I can hang in there the last verse of the song

Hear them angel voices swelling Sounds so good Sounds so strong

That last moment like a testament somehow feel like I belong



And I don’t need Nashville now to tell me what it ain’t never really known

Ain’t no gospel entertainment bred so deep down in the bone

Some fear or dark despair austere this mess my life I can’t repair

But I can carry on and if there’s one more song in my heart boys

I’m ready let it start I’ll know my place I’ll know my part

And when that chorus come around again you can be sure I’ll be joining in



Late at night whiskey sings like angels

Sings like shadows seems like something

Might need forgiving maybe never needed

Nothing like it come the light of day


Someone’s Digging In The Underground

 Where did we go from arguing nowhere still the faucet’s leak


Was like a nervous metronome I tapped my foot I did not speak

I held my breath outside the rain drummed its fingers on the windowpane

You turned to glare at the sweating glass You clinched your fist let the feeling pass

And silence most ungratefully returned its silence hatefully

Seemed to me I heard the sound like someone’s digging in the underground





I stared into my own reflection curtains parting with the wind

Moments we sliced into sections breaking but they never bend

You start yourself you lose the phrase You catch a glimpse of your own gaze

You want to move you want to speak Your anger wild your manner meek

And all that’s left of yesterday is time to move get out of the way

Seemed to me I heard a song that we just left unsung too long





Now sometimes when the rain falls slow long and lazy in the night

I think on things I ought to know things that time just won’t make right

I should have held you tight and grown given something let you known

That love can live beyond its duties Comforts giving way as beauty’s

Silence like an evil spell giving way to wish you well seems to me I heard the sound

As if someone’s digging in the underground Someone’s digging in the underground

Someone’s digging in the underground

 
Pappy Closed The Book On Miss Lucy






Pappy closed the book on Miss Lucy

She’s dead now and he ain’t talking

Stood there at her door for an hour or more

Then he turned around and took off walking

That tear on his cheek make him feel weak he can’t help it

After awhile he relax and smile be like he felt nothing at all



Now tell them all about that cocaine deal

She was black and trying to pass for white

Tell them how the deal fell through account of you

You’re the heat on a cold cold night

You stood there shiver he pulled that trigger you know you

Good as killed her that’s what everybody’s saying about you man

They cut her down clean caught her out there between them without you



She say “oh sweet Daddy what it’s doing to my head

I’m alive like tomorrow ain’t ever got to get going

And I ain’t going to pretend I’m good for any one man

But oh sweet Pappy when can I see you again?”

And Pappy he looked so happy got them handcuffs on her

Backseat that squad car somewhere out there Dickerson Road

Touching her rubbing her any old way he want to

And he got all that sweet white powder she be wanting it too



Now tell them how it ended last Friday night

You and her stood face to face

3 in the morning lower Broad and the porn

And the honky tonks closing everybody knows

There’s places to go keep it crazy just don’t show your ass down here

Keep your mouth and your money to yourself now Honey

Talking bout a ticket a ticket and a tear she make it pretty damn clear

Eyes see ears hear she used up her fun now she’s gone gone gone



And she’s laying there in a heap looking like she’s asleep

So peaceful and all except for the blood

And her lips so full and pretty and pink

And Pappy he don’t know what to feel what to think

She’s a junkie and a whore maybe a little bit more

“What is it these people? so many nights you know

I gave it up for her tried to help her maybe show

her something different He’s thinking to himself it’s just too bad

You know she might have been the best the best I ever had



Now Pappy closed the book on Miss Lucy

She’s dead now and he ain’t talking

He stood there at her door for an hour or so

Then he turned around and took off walking

That tear on his cheek make him feel weak he can’t help it

After awhile he relax and smile be like he felt nothing at all


Your Postal Card

 Now I read what you said your postal card


And I’m staring at it and trying hard

To figure out what you’re going through

But I just can’t see what you’re trying to do



And I want to be eager I want to be quick

I want to say love like I know what it means

But it all goes by like the hum and the click

Of a world keep changing like some cold machine



I’m reaching in my pocket I would almost pay

But I’ve given that part of me away

To support my habit and it’s plain to me

That the love you can offer it should at least be free



And I’ve chained my brain to the blinking lights

And it never rains on Saturday nights

And if Sundays find me feeling low

That’s hard luck Buddy and I ought to know

You handle em easy and you handle em slow

And them Sundays they just come and go



And I can’t forget we’ve already tried

All the compromises we played for pride

In that final hour so sorry and sour

And the prodigal never knew the power



He exercised simply being wrong

Being welcomed home and strung along

Such a pitiful beast such a horrible joke

To think how love can end such a final stroke



And I’m reaching in my pocket I would almost pay

But I’ve given that part of me away

To support my habit and it’s plain to me

That the love you can offer should at least be free



And I’ve chained my brain to the blinking lights

And it never rains on Saturday nights

And if Sundays find me feeling low

That’s hard luck Buddy and I ought to know

That you handle them easy you handle em slow

And Them Sundays they just come and go

 
Paradox With Suitcase


I can not alter`history

Nor deny a changing cadence

My muscles weak and warm this anger

And only glass to shatter

(Your voice over a wire

Intimate with details

Forgetting for a second)

We are everywhere we have ever been

We are too many different places now

The book too thick

The rattle of the snare

Like a hammer in my head

Dialing tones and returning change

Baling wire to bind a promise

Like a folded photograph or clipping

I pull you out for scavengers

Who care to share some romance

I am shameless

A dog barks all night in Dallas

A woman flexes her wiles come Spring

You are a rose through all the nonsense

A myth I helped to cultivate but now must worship

Like distances shovels and the wind

 
Jessie Jessie






Jessie Jessie come look and see what these blues have done to me

This ain’t stardust in my hand It’s a one-way ticket to the promised land



And I ain’t crazy but I don’t know Even now what it’s all about

Still it makes no sense to me To walk that tightrope with any doubt



Love it sure can change your mind Tell me something I don’t know

Took me half a head of high To figure it out she was bound to go



But you don’t see no tears in my eyes Life’s too short to carry on

And I can live with most of my lies I’m on my own man I’m on my own



Now that moon is rising on its last good legs That straight and narrow gonna have to stray

And I don’t own no suit no tie But you know I can pay my way OK



What the hell’s it really matter now I’m so far gone

Like a blue bloody bone hanging on hear me moan



Loaded like the barrel some shotgun carol Gonna sing my song sing it hard and fast

Gonna stomp my foot gonna raise my glass Sing it what you think with a wink and a nod



Cause by God ain’t none of this really supposed to last And when I’m gone ya’ll down in the ground

When I’m gone ya’ll and no longer around It’s a toss It’s a loss and a piss and a past



Tell em all Boss they can haul off They can stick it where they want to and kiss my ass



Jessie Jessie come look and see What these blues have meant to me

This ain’t stardust in my hand It’s a one way ticket to a promised land

A one way ticket to some promised land…

 
Willie McBroom.






Now my name is Willie McBroom Folks round here pay me no mind

I walk the streets day and night and I live on what I find

And I came here long ago from my native Caroline

And I place no store on nothing I ain't seen with my own eyes



Now I grew up kind of figuring I'd work that Erwin cotton mill

Like everybody else I knew now I guess I never will

Cause there's a hunger deep inside me would never let me rest

Like some fever in my heart some crazy pounding in my chest



CHORUS:

Catch a ride see where it goes I had nothing left to lose

The time is now and no one knows the hour or the day

Of our deliverance what's the difference make no sense to me and you

Just that poor and pitiful Piedmont hungry hard and blue



Now I stopped off awhile in Asheville Worked some back roads in Black Mountain

I's in Knoxville near a year 'til I headed on to Nashville

Played them hard luck bars downtown Hell everybody knows

You get to feeding on that bottom after awhile it starts to show

That need'n feeling starts to grow



Now I chased this girl up Johnson City She loved them drugs She sure was pretty

We laid there spent one night sometimes so hard to even guess the cost

I let her slip that needle in and my whole world begin to spin

It's like I'se hers I swear there's just a good ten years that I lost



CHORUS



Now I came to one night in Bristol I stood there masked I held a pistol

Some college kid working some bullshit money next to nothing

And he did everything she told him He emptied out the till

And she just drifted off to nowhere pulled that trigger and she killed him



And it weren't her and it weren't him Was this world I'd been a-swimming

Against the fog and fool confusion we make our way and don't know nothing

She was stoned and stood there staring no home anywhere for caring

I could not stop I could not stay I quit that's what I told her raised that gun blew her away



I walked away that night and threw that gun right into the hell

The hole some deep dark well I walked some twisting two-lane up to Roanoke

Took me a month or so I slept the ground under neath the stars

Feeling stronger all the time that new blood coursing through my veins

And no idea really yet all these years and time remains



CHORUS


People Will Take To A Love Song

People they take to a love song


If they’re young it’s all their hopes and dreams

And their blood beats strong

But even as the years move on

And they treat you right or they treat you wrong

Still people will take to a love song



It’s a memory maybe or something you’re born

From the very start

That holding on

Something down deep in your heart

No matter what and you can’t let it go

And maybe you just don’t know

Or maybe you just never really could show it



Though you’re feeling it inside you can’t describe it

Like taking a bribe what you’ll feel how you’ll deal with

The world as it all comes unraveled

Just takes too long

Still people will cling to a love song



And more often than not

All we are all we’ve got reflects what comes next

Before we’re even aware

How hard it can be sometimes just to care

Something I had to share was so important just then

I don’t remember just when I was so lost in that wind

Just in time it was love it was love brought it home to me

Love it was love brought it all back again and



People will take to a love song

If they’re young it’s all their hopes and dreams

And their blood beats strong

But even as the years move on

And they treat you right or they treat you wrong

Still people will cling to a love song


A Gradual Awakening

Now there’s a gradual awakening my eyes


I ain’t quite sure it’s salvation

But that ain’t really what I’m looking

Just time to time everything and like it was before



Become different all these changes

Things that mattered just don’t seem to anymore

I’ve studied hard and kept it clean

No truth standing pure the end

Life is faith in something more my friend



Something out there maybe in-between

I’ve sat so many nights staring numb

Off into that dark makes no demands

What is and what it’s mean

None of us understands



When you’re clinging some lost faith

Some wreathe some waif some symbol

You can bow your neck some yoke

Sometimes the world’s just a joke



Sometimes this world’s for dreamers

I’m awake now I’m not laughing

I can take or I can give

It’s my choice now how I’ll live



There is this if nothing more

This moment mine and true

I helped some I met along the way as best I could

And maybe that is all we’re really here to do I don’t know



Some of these thoughts they just seem to come and go

Ride the flow Enjoy the show

It’s only lately I’ve come to realize

There’s a gradual awakening my eyes…

 
Jericho




When I die When I wake If it ain’t all been some mistake

Close the curtain on my show I’ll meet you down in Jericho



Makes no difference where you been What you done who you know

You got no choice but to go Make your peace with Jericho



You think you something somehow so special Think you something so unique

You’re mind can’t let go Come a time Ain’t no answers what you seek



That light so dark That wind so cold The stars and mysteries so old

It don’t mean nothing No matter who say so Listen to that high hard wind blow

4 AM in Jericho



In the name of god the name of Allah Jesus our lord and all who follow

And how much of all this shit can you still swallow them use religion terrorize control



Ain’t that much difference either side The gods them late night desert throes

Fears suck your souls all reason goes lost to the dark that mad dog’s fate

I can’t make faith or justify all of this fate



And Jericho when the walls come down And you stand naked next to me

And we can all just look around and what makes sense and matters most



Is obvious in the swirling dust the debris our trust what we built it on

Seems mighty weak mighty bleak I meant to rise above



When I die when I wake If it ain’t all been some mistake

Close the curtain on my show I’ll meet you down in Jericho

I’ll meet you down in Jericho

 
     Winding Down The Road

 When people started dying I walked out to the edge


I stood there on the ledge I looked down far below

And I almost made my mind up them wide empty spaces

Where we dream it right or say goodnight to all and on our way

And we all carry that load I been time away too long

I been time away Winding down that road



When the darkness start to set in When the stars they shed their tears

And the milky way and all they say like scales before my eyes

Come true the years they fall away and everything revealed

We make of it what we can and lean into the wind

And only late to contemplate the road the way we came

And we all carry that load I been time away too long

I been time away Winding down that road



Time away and winding down winding down winding down

There’s a howling in my head I can’t trace I can’t turn back

Them I loved and them I cared for old memories we shared

Some of these things I have faced who we were and how it was

Crumbling in my hands Something no one understands

You can miss what’s gone but still go on Come a time it’s all that’s left



When people started dying I walked out to the edge

I stood there on the ledge I looked down far below

And I almost made my mind up them wide empty spaces

Where we dream it right or say goodnight to all and on our way

And we carry that load I been time away too long

I been time away Winding down that road

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