Fire Sale

by Richard Murray

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1.
Flatlining 03:44
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FLATLINING – Richard Murray East of Eden Smokestack bleeding The black into the blue Sound of water Castle walls are in view Way down below Theyre crushing rocks for you Heavy machine Pulls on a seam Leave us on hollow ground Therell be the final grain and the final pound Gotta put my workboots on And swing this axe around Deep shaft mining Salt and burning coal We're flatlining Pull us out of this hole Stern advice From a hog on ice Just down your tools and wait Bolt the door Dig deep and isolate Light at the end of the tunnel Fades as the hour grows late Theres wind and rain Frost on the lanes The road ahead lies cold Me may last or we may lose control Things fall apart The centre cannot hold
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Laugh in Dark Places 04:39
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Laugh in Dark Places 5 Months down At the end of a rope We've lost a few We can but hope A body sound Still feels the effects Now we dont touch But we reconnect The nights are long and we Are just trying to keep The lights on and learn To laugh in dark places and earn And keep the rope from burning Burning Like the wars in the street And the heart of the artisan A time bitter sweet The nights are long and we Are just trying to keep The lights on and learn To laugh in dark places and earn And keep our world turning Turning Like the worm in the earth We could starve in a cage As they judge our worth The nights are long and we Are just trying to keep The lights on and learn To laugh in dark places and earn And keep the rope from burning Keep our world turning And laugh in dark places
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Old River Border 03:59
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OLD RIVER BORDER Take it all the way Over the old river border Running in the Shadows Where the old river border goes Its looking like its gonna rain Milk and grain and sugar cane Cos I put her on the sugar train Give those pigs a pint of plain Row em in and heave away Cattle moan and donkey bray Wading in the waterways And we'll all be cowboys for a day Now Im an outlaw and a thief A mans gotta feed his family Been on the run since '23 Customs, Guards, RUC We're by the roads on Saturdays Cos Ollies on and hes ok A coffin box of whisky He'll cross himself and clear the way But theres mules upon a mountainside Headed for the great divide Blackwater running deep and wide Ill meet you on the other side Ill meet you on the other side
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Devils 2 06:04
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DEVILS 2 – Richard Murray Its cold in the streets now But I walk them alone somehow And as the last scraps leave my veins Im coming down like Asian rain Coming down like Asian rain. And Im gonna level with you Ive been running with the devils too Yea them boys with their poison Your only friend at the end son Your only friend at the end In a fire sale A fire sale For Im bound for iron bars Or iron nails The wagon rolled over rocks and roots Ribs in the the earth they pulled my wheels loose Leg of a dog, Im crooked to the bone Im a lonely frog I aint got a home I aint got a home Men still kill over ink on the skin And over ground theyll be buried in Theyll leave their own just bone in flames A beast of burden for the time that remains For the time that remains Your health wont keep you from the Earthen walls And your wealth wont mean nothing to the soil To crash and burn Id clear the shelf This life will catch me sure as time itself Sure as time itself And everything must go And everyone I know Till this saddlehorn I blow Fire sale Its a fire sale.
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Wrangling Stars 02:42
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WRANGLING STARS One day youre wrangling stars One day wrangling stars Pull them one by one, put them in a jar The day youre wrangling stars One day you hit the wall One day you hit the wall With no ladder, rope or wrecking ball The day you hit the wall Just the whistling wind The tolling bell Bones drawn up from a dried up well People you met Places you been On a train running out of steam But swing and throw it far Or just quit once and for all One fine day youll be wrangling stars Then you hit the wall. Youre digging in dirt Digging in sand Empty handed in a barren land Things youve done Things youve seen All been used like the Wilhelm Scream But swing and throw it far Swing and throw it all One fine day youll be wrangling stars Then you hit the wall. Tear or tunnel down Tear or tunnel down Take a day and a spade Or the long way round Tear or tunnel down But swing and throw it far Or just quit once and for all One fine day youll be wrangling stars Then you hit the wall.
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Hard Love 04:43
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THE HARDEST OF TIMES CH Its a hard love and theres many kinds A hard love in the hardest of times Hard love its a thin thin line Hard love in the hardest of times So take a look and come on down Our no mans land once common ground I know this heart of mines a hard hard sell It runs like a dream under a hard hard shell She bought it outright, no returns Hit the highway with diesel burning CH So make tracks and multiply But every breath you take is side by side Theres nothing in the water , folk just break and they bend Its just expectation that kills us in the end Dig a little deeper, pull up every stone They say we're just walking each other home CH Its a hard love and hard times they come Sinking or sailing the band plays on On through the night, on through the shadows Into the deep or into the shallows CH
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Last Bastion 04:47
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LAST BASTION You always have your say Always get your way Can be a bitter pill to put away But I take it And theres wars in our home But when youre out there on your own If your back should ever lose its bone Ive got it And its fast you can run Fast you can run To the last bastion When darkness from beauty comes And your stuck to some heavy guns Im just taking it out on everyone And we're severed And we fall apart again But my heart still remains From these ramparts we'll take aim and weather Now you dont need my help But the truth hurts like a whip And when theyre writhing under it Yeah theyll fight you Get yourself up and gone Little dogie get along Cos if ever you feel youre not that strong Theres cover So sail the surges tall Scale the curtain wall And Ill meet you in the growing squall My lover
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Box Wine Mama 03:45
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Box Wine Mama SUVs all in a line Sun beating down they shine so fine Kids on the field they play and play till its time to go Ladies cheer and hold them near Breath of red Rosso One smiled at me, got in her car Disappeared down Robert E Lee Boulevard Now I come back most every day, round about this time Every day she look my way Im gonna make her mine Im in love with a box wine mama Oh to lay her down By the light of a daytime drama When her mans not around In love with a box wine mama Sweetest thing Ive found Mama can I come and see you in Louisiana by the lakeside uptown Well skin as brown as dark molasses Eyes of brown under dark glasses All alone in the afternoon bored and on Bordeaux Oh watch that clock, pop that goon box Till the day I show Now I can see them before babies 80s Ladies in their Mercedes I can see them free as the breeze Show me that old black magic please I dont wanna steal your jewels Cut your grass, clean your pool I dont wanna hang around when its time to go In like jack, out like stereo And Im on down the road
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Sea Glass 04:18
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SEA GLASS Young man sharp as a razor Sharp by mind tongue and eye Grape and grain for the aches and the pain Tethered to and weathered by the rye. If youll take a drop in your hand And pull your stool to mine If you got an ear to hear, bend or lend Youll earn that drink in time Earn that drink in time Pour one more for wounds of war Pour one more and let it be the last One more round to take the edge off Cos we are wearing fast We are sea glass I could debate the state of the nation With a round to colour your view Bar stool preaching till each and every speech in my bag was old worn and used Old worn and used But those clouds they formed inside me And theres pieces forever lost One day youre washed up on the shore Passed by or pondered and tossed Passed by or pondered and tossed These mornings I walk to the water Bottles in trembling hands I throw another one long into the ocean Broken pieces in the sand Broken pieces
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Around Me They Grow 06:44
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AROUND ME THEY GROW CH Fires and oceans I could watch them Forever, but oh Around me they grow Im a man for the song of the sirens Im your man for wandering this island Land or sea and never tiring But I stand my ground when the guns are firing Ive sailed the swells as man and halfling Ireland's Teardrop to the shores of Rathlin When the skies tore and storms were forming Id take no leave of the beauty aborning CH I found a wife from the valleys of Virginia But sometimes you cant change whats within ya Id just sit and watch her pine for Verona Till she said Im leaving and I said I dont own ya. I never learned when to stay still or sober Friends fell away like leaves of October Fights would flare in the bars of the harbour Id think of her from the bars of Arbour CH Walked in the evening along the Quay Ive seen more sunsets than Im gonna see And Ive been lower then Tennessee On the strains of Shenandoah But his voice rung sweet and easy Like daring seas now fair and lazy With a wary eye on horizon hazy Ill hold the days of mercy CH CH

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released January 12, 2022

All songs written by Richard Murray

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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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