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Forgive Me Sera
04:28
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Well they put me in the jail in Nuevo Laredo last night
Federales came and put me in a black & white
I was runnin reds with Bohemia on my breath
With a pain in my heart and a poundin in my chest
I was on my way down south on the 85
But down here they get their gringo dead or alive
I used my only call to ask my dad for help
He said it's been 21 years son you're gonna have to help yourself
So please forgive me Sera one more time
I'm just tryin' to get a little further down the line
I know I swore I'd make it through to you
But forgive me Sera I just don't know what to do
Now when I got out I had no money and I had no gas
Made my way through the Balsas and along the tracks
And I hopped on the first Groupo that I found
But it took me northeast through Allende and the border towns
Now I don't mean to let you down
Please forgive me Sera when I say
That trouble follows me from town to town
But I'll make it back into your arms someday
I got a ride from a hack driver down the road
And I ran when I couldn't pay him what I owed
Now I'm stumblin' into town hope you're still around
I can hear the sirens blown' a familiar sound
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2. |
Enlighten Me
06:02
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The Queen of Iquitos waters her Devils Tongue
And reminds me that anything too stupid to be said is sung
It was named after you y'know she
Said the things that you do and you say
And you can't come round playing like that when you've thrown me away
Now Maria from Cocaine Street believes she can fly like a bird
With her hand on her hip and sweat on
Her lip she invites me into her world
But the streets in the long run and the 0s
And the 1s are more searing than ever before
When you return in the morning from Gods golden shore
Old Shakey was right you know Maria's like the setting sun
Pink red and orange over the banks of the Rio Maranon
Where my Sovannah and I were screaming lines heard a thousand times
She says I'm frustrated and cynical and hard inside
'Cos I've followed in footsteps
Where I thought I'd laid trails of my own
Seen a thousand Volkswagon vans just
Like mine parked through the streets of Rome
And the afflicted leave the
Infirmary in search of their own faith cure
Where the longhaired kids hunt in packs praying on the obscure
Well it's long then it's short to be different is always the same
Any spark in your mind will be chewed up and spat out again
Oh can Max and Theodore come and enlighten me please
For these neon lit idols have brought me to my knees
And I've travelled around and I've
Settled down where the rivers collide
But the grass always seems so much
Greener on the banks of the other side
And the sun burns my skin here but something inside makes me stay
Oh stay to recover the heart of the one thrown away
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Thinking of Cristina
03:31
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Met her a long time ago out in a foreign land
I'd had too much to drink but she took my hand
Since I've been travelling alone on a quest for fortune and fame
And through it all my thoughts remain the same
Now look how far I've come
And how long I've been gone
But I've been thinking of Cristina
As I've been going home
Now you can't break a promise that's never been made
But We'll be together someday down in the water we'll wade
But now I'm moving over mountains
Dragging my heart like a ball and chain
And through it all my thoughts remain the same
Thunder rolls in the sky like a beatin' on a drum
Fields burn all around me orange in the sun
Tyres roll over steamin tarmac to the blurred horizon of the flame
And through it all my thoughts remain the same
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4. |
Blueberry Wine
04:38
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Well it feels like a hundred years or more
The hands of time sure have been movin' slow
We may have met in the sun or the April rain
But there's one thing I know for sure
There was blueberry wine that summer
And blueberry wine that spring
I know I loved you then
But I can't remember anything
Now it might have been some way that you looked at me
A sound you'd make or something you would say
The hazy nights make all things seem a little sweeter
I've always been a little foolish that way
Now I wish I could sing 'her eyes are blue'
Or spin some words to illustrate you
But the bottle ran dry and the leaves fell to the ground
And I hope you're out there doin' good
I'm just rollin' on like some driftwood
'Till the river runs dry I'll remain onward bound
Now I couldn't say when you wrote this letter I've been savin'
It's just signed 'always, your blueberry girl'
And I don't even know where you're livin'
But I guess I wouldn't fit now in your world
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5. |
Down in this Town
05:17
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There's a cold hard rain
Comin' across the plain
Headin' this way
But it can't wash away
The sins you'll find today
Down in this town
There's ferry boats on the horizon
Sailin' away across the blue sound
Nothing changes but the seasons
And I can't find no reasons
To stay down in this town
You'll find a ragged union flag
You'll find trouble down the drag
If you dare to go there
Where life's like a free fare
On a train goin' nowhere
Down in this town
There's bright lights on the highway
But to these streets I am bound
There's a river headin' south
You can ride it to the mouth
Of where it flows
Where deadwood burns on the beach
And somewhere just out of reach
A soft and wailin' harp blows
But I can't fight anymore
My spirit's lost the war
Down in this town
Down in this town
The people train pullin' out
But there's no space to be found
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1931
04:09
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In the city of eternal war
Some fought with no sword or gun
In the city of eternal war oh lord
Nineteen and thirty-one
They built those big ships of iron and steel
But couldn't leave their northern shore
You either built those big ships of iron oh lord
Or make the cloth that the rich man wore
Hammer from the break of day
Hammer till the setting sun
Hammer from the break of day oh lord
Welding iron and rivet gun
Now winter time was blowin' in
'Cross the land like a railroad vine
Winter time was blowin' in oh lord
Central station to the end of the line
From slums both sides of the wall
Faith so far from their mind
From slums both sides of the wall oh lord
They formed the picket line
October morning bright and clear
The bullet and the rock collide
October morning bright and clear oh lord
Fought together men side by side
Now these men could move the mountains
The uprising had begun
These men could move the mountains oh lord
So-called Board of Guardians
6am smoke rises in the sky
A new dawn a new day
Blood will be wiped from the streets oh lord
New ships on a new slipway
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7. |
I'll Never Learn
04:18
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I took a walk across the tracks today
The scars have healed it's a new dawn a new day
And I may be cursed for life
But I wont go down without a fight
Now once again Im caught in the undertow
Hit the bawdyhouse for the same old Cuban ho
But she make me feel like Im comin home
And she make me feel like Im all alone
Ooh whee Ill never learn
Ooh whee Ill never learn
Ive been kicked when Im down time after time
Ive been kicked out of town and went on the lam
Now the paths getting narrow winds movin in
It rattles the bolts on my wagon of sin
Ooh whee Ill never learn
Ooh whee Ill never learn
I appreciate the warnings and concern
But ooh whee Ill never learn
Id like to leave the apple on the tree
And find some work for these idle hands to do
Now God willin and the Creek don't rise
Ill make it out and Ill make it through
I bought into a game by the harbour bay
Where the city moves in a neon shadow play
But its a highly strung and a tangled web I weave
With blood on my shirt and aces up my sleeve.
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Burning Silver
07:21
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Steve Reece was a helpless man
Makin' money any way that he can
Midnight down at the Blue Note
Sugar and honey poured from his throat
Well he made a deal down on The Immigrants
Just like he always used to do
Black clouds covered the sky
Rain poured down the avenue
Burning silver burning gold
Well the ribbons flash and the thunder crashes
Outside the 7 back to the Valley of Ashes
Where his dreams got lost in a flood
And a devil got way down in his blood
Now somewhere out across the river
A bill's got no band
And somewhere out in South Corona
The Queen has lost a man
Burning silver
The needle and the spoon
Burning gold
Indian summer afternoon
Burning silver
Across the palm of the jugglers hand
Burning gold
Promise lost in the promised land
The sun rises from the pits of Hell
Over a cloud of smoke where the mighty twins fell
Steve Reece in a room sitting on his bed
With a beam of light through the window
Like a corkscrew to his head
Somewhere a mother waits for a call
Brothers and sisters know nothing at all
Toys in the attic car in the drive
Names scratched on the trees outside
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Midnight Oil
04:47
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Frank went down with the broken hearted
Surrendered to the souls departed
And vanished in the alley steam
Me I live a solemn song
Sometimes sad but always strong
Sinkin in a prairie soil
We burn midnight oil
As a wicked and a workin man
I took him east to the Reeperbhan
In the day he'd touch her curls
And I drink St. Pauli Girl
But the graveyard shift and we're all alone
We live among the dust and bones
How will we carry on
When the midnight oil is gone
We keep on burnin
The candle at both ends
We keep on burnin
Midnight oil
In the sun we punch an honest fight
And I rage against the dying light
But the coal black sky unfurls
And it leads the way to the underworld
And it passes over sacred mile
The land between the Lord and I
And obscures the line we walk along
In the dark before the dawn
And how will we carry on
When the midnight oil is gone
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10. |
Wandering Infidel
05:41
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The sky is white and the rocks are grey
It's the same thing everyday
Waitin on a glow to take my mind away
And to dance around my skin
For a while I'd been in trouble
And for a while I've been alone
I'd build a highway right through the stratosphere
If I thought it could take me home
So follow, follow me down
The streets I grew up on
See the dogs bark in the street
Hear the leaves beneath your feet
Experience in the purest form
Yeah but you can never feel the way I do
Now my childhood days are through
There's no church I can turn to
I'm just a wandering Infidel
Wandering Infidel
Now there's snow down at my feet
And there's no one to save me
Left the crossroads with my soul intact
And a cold wind at my back
'Cos when you live a life of no affiliation
To the fire or to the sky
You don't wait for any salvation
You make it through heart and mind
Heart and mind
Heart and mind
Now you can't forgive what I've done
And the time for redemption has come and gone
But there'll be a place out in the sun
Where my senses will come undone
So pick up the pieces of my bed
The campfire will soon be dead
Pass the ashes around one more time
You can keep whatever's mine
A new skyline lies just up ahead
There's a vista out to the west
I may drink the wine and taste the bread
But you'll remember a wandering infidel
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Valley of the Unforgiven
05:30
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Its time again to lie in the mercy of the night
My trial lies in wait in the blinding light
In the land that harbours the heathen souls
Pushers of the hunger, the flame, the bullet hole
Come find me out in the desert wind
Marked as Cain for my venial sin
Follow vultures vile to my paling bones
Ride the Cannonball on time Casey Jones
Why did you go and leave me lonely
Why did you go and leave me here
These passages of alleys creeks and narrowlands
In the Valley of the Unforgiven
Lit a match threw it down at our last chance Texaco
Poured fourth my kerosene across the great Los Indios
Took the backroads south to the long decline
Was abandoned on the wayside by the borderline
And why did you go
And leave me lonely
Why did you go
My one and only
Now the law cant touch me but po po's on his horse
Theyre roundin up everyone all the way across
The straight and the narrow the crooked and the deep
For retribution of the guilty taken from their sleep
So come find me out in the desert wind
Open up again and let me in
If I pushed my wounded heart with nimble tongue
Id no longer be the unforgiven
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12. |
DTs Roadhouse Shake
03:27
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You've been fightin' this addiction baby
Sweatin' through your yellow shirt
Your mind is gonna bend
Your bones are gonna hurt
It's got you down and roadhouse bound
The backroom boys wanna watch you drown
But hey
You've gotta do the DTs shake
Why you gotta use me
Why do you have to pretend
Pretty words in a line I can't comprehend
The wolves are beatin' at my back door
You just keep takin' more and more
But hey
You're gonna do the DTs shake
Mama you know I ain't a millionaire
I got coffee for my lunch and my subway fare
While you're ridin' the red-eye to shadowland
Your brain's in the clouds and your head's in the sand
But listen to me talkin' honey
Don't you jump and shout
I've been down to Chinatown
I know what I'm talkin' about
Now in your youth you're gettin' old
Stick between the hedges stay on the road
And hey
You're gonna do the DTs shake
Yeah you're gonna do the DTs shake
Yeah the DTs shake
DT
DT
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13. |
The Wind and Rain
07:03
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If you sail the Caledonian Ocean
You may get caught in the wind and rain
But with a little time and devotion
You'll find your way back home again
Feel like the walls are closing in
Feel like the belly of the beast
Still on the corner with the nowhere men
Chasing the rising tide
Cant you see the window for your words
Cant you hear the call within the call
Just grab your suitcase and your Hummingbird
Take the slow boat to Carolina
Tell it as the crow flies young balladeer
Spit out the dust with the diesel
Shot like an arrow through the atmosphere
All the way from Belfast to Boston
Take the time to question and to understand
Just where you're gonna be tomorrow
And don't stray too far from the motherland
You'll wanna be there when she calls you
So pay the snake to fork your tongue
Take his smoke into your lung
You know these things don't come easy
But when they come to classify you
Cut him loose and pacify
Leave the devil for the deep blue sea
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Richard Murray Northern Ireland, UK
Richard Murray is a Northern Irish Alt. Country Singer/Songwriter. After 10 years as a session musician he released his debut album in 2007 and has been writing, recording and performing solo and with many other artists. His music found a home in 2017 at Ginger Syrup Records who have been at the helm of his latest release 'The Long Haul'. ... more
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