1. |
Poor Boy
04:08
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POOR BOY
Poor boy aint got no home
Walkin’ a junkyard of machines and bones
With a pocket full of marbles
And a mouth full of moans
Got a book of matches and a box of dreams
Got a book of matches and a box of dreams
Burn my hope trade the smoke
For some railroad steam
Gone to savannah on the gulf coast line
Gone to savannah on the gulf coast line
Take the blame change my name
Leave this low down old bought and sold town behind
Poor boy aint got no home
Walking a junkyard of machines and bones
Pocket full of nothin’
And a mouth full of moans
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2. |
Lawless Soirez
03:56
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The Ballad of Lawless Soirez
Lying in my bed got no dreams in my head
That haven’t been drug across the floor
Waiting for the sun buried on the ocean
For what feels like ten thousand years or more
I have seen the mountain and I’ve walked the valleys
I’ve been thru the city and I’ve walked the alleys
On the summer evenings with the raccoons grieving
I have seen the cold dark mare
I was young and bold falling in love with barmaids
Out on cemetery road
My pockets lined with gold waiting for the crusade
To leave this helpless world alone
I looked from flesh and bone on the place that I call home
Standing in the ruins of downtown
Iron lace and haunted streets itching heel has got me beat
But there’s nothing that important to me now
I was born a rambler guess I always will
Once you get the habit you just cant stand still
But now I’m all disheveled running like the devil
On my hind legs in the sun
There were many times I wish that I’d have stayed
But I know I can’t go home
I try to stay in time but time slips away
And now I’m out here on my own
When you’re poor without a dream this ol’ world keeps getting mean
And happiness is just a word you know
Left in a world of pain on ten thousand miles of railroad train
It doesn’t really matter where I go
Crossing states by moonlight I often wonder
If they’ll ever hang me for all the love I stole
Mr. organ grinder please tell me where to find her
Old lady luck just dropped me cold
Sometimes I'm lost sometimes I'm driven
Sometimes I know not where to roam
They’re going to bury me on some forgotten morning
Until then I have no home
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3. |
Dixie
03:16
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DIXIE
With our arms round each other drinkin dixie in the gutter
Waiting for the sunrise again
Watchin all the streetcars and tourists in cigar bars
Drinking martini’s and gin
You tell some stories we’d both tell some lies
Under the pale black skies
And every now and then we’ll be here again
In the gutter drinking dixie my friend
All the people we’d meet playing music in the street
Singing the cocaine blues until dawn
We’d talk and spend big down at the blind pig
For one more round and a song
Passing our time with whiskey and wine
And women that never stayed long
Some came from France some came from chance
But the best from the Midwest
We drank to the future we drank to the past
We drank to the moments we knew wouldn't last
Leaning on the shoulder of highways that abused us like friends
We caught those trains just like a disease
With our heads in the clouds and our heart on it’s knees
Looking for something that we may never find
Jake had to ramble took all he could handle
Augie you know he’s just bound to die
Sometimes I miss em but mostly I don’t
Sometimes I break down and ask why
Why are things this way what makes things that way
And which way if anyway is right
I’m alone with my friends, down in my sin
In the gutter drinking dixie again
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4. |
Loneliness
02:35
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LONLINESS
Talking to myself out in the rain
With a belly full of bourbon and a heart full of pain
Looking for somebody that may even care
But in vain, lord I cant find one anywhere
It’s two in the morning in this American town
And true love cant be found
Loneliness in the middle of nowhere
And nobody cares who you are
Happiness cant even go there
It passed out at the end of the bar
I gave her my heart she sold me her lies
While blowing right through me with her hurricane eyes
Mathematicians have problems we just couldn’t get along
Now everything is broken everythings gone wrong
I should have left it at paris but could not refuse
One more chance to lose
Lonliness in the middle of nowhere
And nobody cares who you are
Happiness cant even go there
It got killed by a falling star
It’s a strange world getting stranger everyday
Only yesterday I heard a stranger say
My hearts been broken and mended so many times
It looks like Frankenstein
Loneliness in the middle of nowhere
And nobody cares who you are
Happiness can't even to go there
It got killed by a falling star
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5. |
Ugly Town
02:22
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UGLY TOWN
Well I just don’t know why
Or how you could think
I should be satisfied
Watchin’ you
Getting’ old and stoned
I know you’ll find somebody new
To take your drunk ass home
I don’t care what Bill or Jane said and does
This aint half the place that it wishes it was
And I’m simply tired of hanging round
So I’m leavin’ in the mornin’
You and this ugly town we was born in
Aint coming back less I find out it’s burning down
I wont apologize for not giving a damn
Or the cynical bastard you know that I am
I’m just gonna walk out the door
I just can’t find the sense in hangin’ round
You and this twisted mid-western breeding ground
Anymore
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6. |
Desiree
03:06
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DESIREE
I cant understand
Why your leavin’ me this way
Desiree
With those graveyard eyes
And those lies I heard you say
Desiree
We cascaded all our fears
Down to the burning city streets
Desiree after all these years
You got me fallin’ off my feet
So please tell me now
What’s got you so afraid
Desiree
I been down to Cameron town
And I been up to your room
Underneath your burning sheets
To face a blind mans doom
Now the trouble in your eyes
Makes it hard for me to say
Desiree
Wont you stay
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7. |
Anjolie
02:47
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ANJOLIE
You know it sets my nerves on fire
To think of your creepy desire
And to know that you’re a liar
Says you love me too
I used to dream of distant places
Far from all these distant faces
Just me and you in a bungalow for two
Anjolie
There’s only so much I can take
And even less that I can give
Though if it weren’t for your sake
I may never have wished I never lived
For all the things we might have done
Underneath the foreign sun
Walking arm in arm down the twisted streets
Of La Rochelle or old Paris
Anjolie
Once upon a time
You used to be my one and only
Though it was only
A few weeks in july
Then you found someone new
He made you blue
You told me how you cried
And how you wished that I would
Come back one more time
Well I thought I would
But now I wont
Cause I used to care
But now
I’m on a gravy boat to Paris
Sounds like something to do
I’ll hang around some Paris terrace
Imagining I’m somewhere new
And I will dream of distant places
Far from all these twisted faces
And all the things that used to be
Will be nothing but a memory
Anjolie
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8. |
Magdalene
03:13
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MAGDELAINE
There was no other gal in the country
In the country there was no thief
When are you coming to Boston
Miss Mary you’re a long way from home
The first time that I met you
You were standing alone on the stairs
Confused ragged and barefoot
You’d taken whatever was there
Sound the dead march take me to the churchyard
For all that I’m worth
My poor head is aching my poor heart is breaking
Now your raking me over with earth
You gave me a line of talk
You wouldn’t tell me your name
There was a murder of ravens
I guessed it was Magdelaine
When I got to Illinois
I asked the man they called the bartender
Which gold mines I should avoid
She whispered soft in my ear
You cant get there from here
I saw the cross on her chain
At 100 degrees below zero
I died for that woman again
Sound the dead march take me to the churchyard
For all that I’m worth
My poor head is aching my poor heart is breaking
Now your raking me over with earth
At the top of the hill I’ll be sleeping
Let the cold ground be my bed
Tombstone for my pillow
Let the moonlight be my spread
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9. |
Mexico
03:25
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MEXICO
My baby loves her talisman and her holy ghost
My baby loves her moonshine and the urchins smoke
She loves voodoo swamp angels under cypress groves
But my baby she don’t love me no more
My baby loves her addiction and her stolen pearls
Loves her conviction to a frozen world
She loves drunk alleys telephones
But my baby she don’t love me no more
My baby loves her monkey and her burglars wine
My baby loves her dungeon and matters of time
She loves blood red roses in December snow
But my baby she don’t love me no more
My baby loves the city and her social crutch
My baby loves her cop and his brutal touch
My baby loves my money and mexico
But my baby she don’t love me no more
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10. |
Gasoline Legs
04:39
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GASOLINE LEGS
She aint got no sympathy
For your Hollywood heartstrings
Not one penny to her name
Riding someone else’s train
With her eyes like fire
Legs like gasoline
She’s the sweetest thing
You ever seen
On a juke joint Tuesday night
(dancing in the dark moonlight)
Dreaming of Denver twilight
California in her shoe
She aint got nothin to loose
Poisoned with a vision
Back turned to the ocean
Sleeping in the arms
Of hurricanes
She comes on like lightning
And she leaves like rolling thunder
She offers her love
But all you know how to receive is hunger
Neath the billboards empty dreams
The canvas towns not what it seems
Leaning on your broken crutch
For the fix within her touch
In the nights you strangle
Fallen like an angel
Through the ruin and
The rain
She comes on like lightning
And she leaves like rolling thunder
She offers her love
But all you know how to receive is hunger
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11. |
Coal Black Heaven
03:53
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COAL BLACK HEAVEN
If you can hear my poor voice callin’
Drowned in a bottle of black rain fallin’
Down through the sky
There is a land of thieves and wonder
With eyes full of smoke and ears full of thunder
Under all this glitter
Where I heard a boneyard train a screamin’
Above a veil of tears
I seen coal black heavens red fog rollin’ in
Down down down through the years
I went to a field down by the river
With eyes torn naked and cleansed within her
Ever shifting face
Somewhere in a thousand years to the mountain
With a bite of heaven and watermelon
Turning in the sun
Where I heard a sullen eyed maiden dreamin’
Beyond parasite fears
I seen coal black heavens red moon fallin’ in
Down down down through the years
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12. |
Mutiny
02:44
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Gill Landry Three Rivers, California
Louisiana native, Gill Landry is a two-time Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter & multi-instrumentalist, photographer, lithographer, shade-tree mechanic, gardener, sometimes ranch hand.
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