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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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9. |
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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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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