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Some Bartenders
02:40
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Some bartenders
they pass for priests
in a midnight mass
for all the sacred hearts that lean
on the counter
Some bartenders
pass for priests
in a midnight mass
for all the sacred hearts that lean
at the confession counter
music and lyrics p&© 2005 robert deeble
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This bar has no one left
over sixty.
Just a few old ghosts
waiting to be spoken to.
And should I conjure them to speak
they would tell us tales of prison
in a cigarette voice
that rattles
like an old set of traps
***
A second chance perhaps…
to chauffeur the young
and mock the proud observing lent
and gaze upon the beauty of a woman
and who says there is no God
when mercy such as this –
takes a life
and throws its own farewell
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Clowned
03:17
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CLOWNED
All my friends they
go to the bar’
Every Tuesday
All my friends they
play in bands
and we all go
La da da da
Every Tuesday
the smoke could take a lung
and the Marlboro girl
is looking good
while she’s still young
And she goes
La da da da
I went back Tuesday
but all my friends were gone
there was no one left
but a bar full of clowns.
breaking tables
to circus tunes
taking over the bar
with their big yellow shoes
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Face Down on Concrete
04:06
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Face down on concrete, I thought you were gone,
I asked your friend what you were on.
Cause sometimes I wonder if you’re not straight with me...
Like you thought you were too bad and I was too good -
so hold you back some truth although it would do you some good.
Now your face down, stone cold, asleep on my shoe,
and I’ll always be there for you
Face down on concrete outside of the club,
it's funny the places we go to for love -
and Jesus kissed lepers and spit out the blood.
And all those self righteous lovers, they never cared for him much.
He downed all their schemes, and drove out their luck,
with the money changers, and their bad hair cuts,
but He’ll always be there for you
Stay close to God, let him lift you up,
where you’ve let yourself down.
Show me your smile,
don’t let your countenance fall...
to the ground.
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5. |
Long Long Long
02:38
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Shipwreck
05:10
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Where I touch you
will you open up like a flower?
Pedals that rise up
beneath the night
and will you
tremble inside?
Will you reach out for me now?
Your hand so
curious and casual
for the thoughts that lie
on my mind.
Twelve years
a beautiful fire.
Your song
a siren’s choir
And I long,
broken inside,
to be the shipwreck
between your thighs
Take off your crumpled dress
let it fall
in Holiness
and I will crawl
through the mess
and I will crawl.
(Composed from the road on my 12 yr wedding anniversary)
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Robert Deeble Seattle, Washington
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