1. |
427 Washburn Street
02:35
|
|||
blood stains on his tshirt
so you know just where he’s been
spent all his friday wages
on a whore and mescaline
he’s passed out in the carport
smells like makers mark and sin
best be gone before he wakes up
the mood that he’ll be in
i was gone
soon as i could work my feet
it was a tin roof pre-fab
427 washburn street
sister had five boyfriends
cause she loved a dirty fight
wore her lipstick red as roses
wore her dresses short and tight
left no note behind her
disappeared into the night
didn’t even take a suitcase
must have caught an early fright
mama kept on with prescriptions
his heart was bout wore out
she kept a secret pill box
in the wall behind the couch
she had lots of pills to make him sleep
and some that make him dream
she got eyes that cut his soul out
like some vengeful laser beam
|
||||
2. |
Willing Man
03:04
|
|||
the belt is gone on the well pump honey
the cistern’s running dry
push the cattle down to the new grass
push your prayers up to the sky
i’ll truck on down to Whitetail baby
see if big john can be found
brush the cobwebs off his dowser
find the water underground
they tell me that a willing man earns the measure with his hands
but if we don’t get some rain soon, i hope my savior understands
cause i’ve been keeping records now
you best believe i’m keeping score
and i won’t bother knocking
i’m just walking through heavens door
Hank can’t feed his horses honey
i can take them off his hands
they can graze up on the high hill
on the federale’s land
if we get out of this one baby
gonna settle up with the man
they say he works in mystery
well i don’t understand his plan
sometimes when the prairie grass
shimmers like a golden sea
the only thing that matters is that you are here with me
|
||||
3. |
Bucktown Girl
03:13
|
|||
they shut down the bar an hour or so before
pulled down the shades put the closed sign on the door
she was dancing on the bar still and nobody seemed to care
i said i got a place just a block or two from here
i miss her
my little bucktown girl
i said tell me your name she said call me what you please
and gave a little half laugh and she kissed me on the cheek
said would the gentleman like to buy the girl a drink
i said of course he would and washed a glass out in the sink
her laughter sounded like a song
sung in harmony till dawn
when i woke up she was gone
|
||||
4. |
Blue
03:02
|
|||
Seems like trouble always circles me round here
Smoking ditch weed and drinking warm union beer
Idle hands are just the devil’s now I fear
Heading out of town my problems disappear
Gonna start all over fresh in some place new
And make the same mistakes again I made with you
Call me bitter blue
She only wanted what a woman wants it seems
Find a man to pay attention to her dreams
A double wide set on a level lot is all she’d ever need
Covered by the kind of wound that never bleeds
Somewhere far enough away
so nobody knows my name
it’s an old familiar story
and the ending is the same
|
||||
5. |
Souvenir
02:59
|
|||
you didn't think of her as a keeper
she's just another souvenir
if she's still around when the hockey game is over
and you finish another beer
then you're walk right over
and ask her darlin, what's your name
i got a hundred different reasons for leaving
but i can't remember why i came
she says i thought you'd never come over
i've been giving you the signals all night
did you think that i looked just like trouble
did you think i looked like i might bite
now that i have your attention
tell me darlin, what's your name
i got a hundred different reasons for leaving
but i can't remember why i came
she says i can't listen to coltrane
it always makes me want to dance
and when she turns around you slip away
you knew that it was your last chance
and you wonder why you ever went over
and asked her darlin, what's your name
i got a hundred different reasons for leaving
but i can't remember why i came
|
||||
6. |
Double
02:45
|
|||
In a ditch in god knows where
The truck has left the road
Blood was drying in my hair
Carried double times the load
Carried double times the load
Pulling out from Beauceville
With some timber and some weed
Make it down to Caratunk
Bring the people what they need
Bring the people what they need
Maybe one more trip or two
Paying off my IOU
and I’ll buy a second chance
FIght this logging road all night
Muddy windshield one headlight
And the reapers come to dance
In a ditch in god knows where
The truck has left the road
|
||||
7. |
The Undoing
03:19
|
|||
Holding on
to a lie that she was there for the taking
Long as i can my body is shaking
A fantasy
Telenovela casting me as the hero
Plot twisting set the clock back to zero
Falling down
So I can start again got to die before you run
Release me now
I got years to go so much undoing to be done
Rescue me
Cut the bell rope cause I think the lifeboat is sinking
on our knees and nobody’s thinking
|
||||
8. |
To the Bottom
03:39
|
|||
headlights on the left side
there’s a ditch on the right
you’d better find somewhere
you can stop for the night
you showed up with a five pack
the way that you do
road beers have a habit
of following you
she was there at the window
prepared for a fight
her eyes like a tractor beam
had you locked in its sights
my angel
my baby
she left me
i’m crazy
i fell down
so thirsty
to the bottom again
said i ain’t no supergirl
i can bleed too
your words feel like bee stings
when i’m talking to you
said i’ll give you an option
you just have to choose
between me and my heart beat
or the pull of the booze
nothing but big rigs
on i-95
there’s a rest stop in kittery
might keep you alive
but what good is living
if theres no one to tell
how the hole that you fell down
is as deep as a well
|
||||
9. |
Cali Blossom
03:34
|
|||
If I hadn't turned away
If I had stayed to face
All the things you had to say
To me
Would I still be lost in time
Drivin' 'cross the LA line
Feeling like I lost my mind
Again
The Cali-blossom nectar tastes so sweet
And I remember when my hand was on your knee
And your smile so young, so pretty and so free
If you had just turned the page
If you had just walked away
There was nothing left to say
To me
Everything would have turned out all right
Like a long forgotten night
Fading like a lone taillight
Again
|
||||
10. |
||||
she threw her shit into the pickup bed
threw the kids into the cab
and then she slammed it into drive
who's he think he's talking to
with that sneering little smile
he best be glad he's still alive
she got a cold case of denial on her first year anniversary
a long look in the mirror
that says it's him or me
now his brother comes around to say
that he wants to see them kids
but he's got the bato in his veins
but they look like him like they look like you
and isn't that a shame
cause things won't ever be the same
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Chuck Melchin, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp