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Salton Sea
01:12
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She said I'm already dead, I just ain't laid down
I'm a bird on a wire, too scared to touch ground
She said I wonder what happens when we die
Does it flash our whole lives right in front of our eyes?
She said I ain't seen the Salton Sea in at least fifty damn years
I wonder if it looks the same as when my daddy took me down there
But I ain't got the heart to tell her, she ain't got the heart to break
So I just lie and tell her nothing's changed
I'll just lie and tell her nothing's changed
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Oh Brother
04:07
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My brother's a straight shooter yeah he'll tell you like it is
Except when he don't say nothin' cause he don't remember it
He's tough and he's lonesome and he's lost as they get
He's done his time in county cause he drinks a bit
He called me up last Sunday, he sounded like a ghost
Called me up collect like no one does anymore
Said he caused some trouble in a bar in New Orleans
Stabbed a man with his knife, cut him deep and clean
Brother... oh, brother
What have you done?
There's horses you can't hitch and there's fences you can't mend
He was one of those and this was one of them
Like a moth to a flame he'd always find a way
To get himself all tethered up in the things he can't contain
Been a month worth of Sundays since I have talked to him
Said he'd do anything to stay out of the pen
Said he's headed for the sun off the edge of the world
Right into that great big void where we'll all be hurled
Brother... oh, brother
What have you done?
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If you're gonna leave me, just go on and go
Cause I've got no interest darlin' in being in control
All my life things have always changed
People come and go and then they fade away
Some may mistake it for trying to be strong
But I've got my reasons for sitting on this throne
The king of fools and the prince of misery
All I'll leave behind is a headstone that decrees:
Here lies a bag of bones
Lost and all alone
Here lies somebody's ghost
The savior king of rock and roll
I turn the engine, listen to it whine
Radio's broken now, the clock won't keep time
I drive in silence thinking of you
The stardust in your hair and my rocket shoes
Here lies a bag of bones
Lost and all alone
Here lies somebody's ghost
The savior king of rock and roll
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Hey Susie!
02:42
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Susie didn't want anyone to know she's on the run
Susie didn't want anyone to know she had a gun
Susie passed a hi-po on the side of the road
Pulling someone over in that Michigan snow
Wishing that she could just turn around and go home
When Susie was a kid no one ever was around
Her momma took to pills and her daddy left town
Susie fell in with the wrong kind of crowd
For a little girl with a big ass loud mouth
But that's what you get when no one will help you out
Susie took some money that she knew wasn't hers
Susie took some money that she knew would get her burned
Then she headed off for that Flickertail State
Where no one knew her face and no one knew her name
Just hoping she didn't end up at the bottom of a lake
I wonder if she ever made that Michigan line
Susie disappeared like a wrinkle in time
I wonder if she thought it was worth in the end
I wonder what she thought right before they threw her in
I wonder if she held her breath or just let it in
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On the Nature of Deities
02:05
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I saw god in a limousine
Smoking a big cigar
Then the devil appeared drinking thirty-five year
Speyside from a mason jar
God said driver take us downtown
We got a meeting with Goldman Sachs
Can't have to poor folks of this old world
Thinking they don't have to break their backs
I know you might not believe me
You might not think that it's true
But I've been on this earth long enough
To know when I'm played a fool
I saw god on a subway car
Headed for the upper west side
When he took the boots off a sleeping old man
Who'd just gotten warm for the night
He turned to me, said it ain't about money
Or power or paying your dues
It's all about finishing the race
Without ever losing your shoes
I know you might not believe me
You might not think that it's true
But I've been on this earth long enough
To know when I'm played a fool
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6. |
The Last Song I Write
03:40
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If this is the last song I write
The last thing that I leave behind
My final will, my very last rites
If this is my long kiss goodnight
I hope that I made you smile
Made you wanna stay for a while
I hope I made you feel the way that I felt
When I felt... anything
I guess you'd call this a swan song
But this ugly duck don't make curtain call
You can find me in the very last stall
With my head up on the wall
I hope that I made you smile
Made you wanna stay for a while
I hope I made you feel the way that I felt
When I felt... anything at all
If this is the last thing I think
I think that it don't mean a thing
I think the 86 cubs shoulda won
And they should put M*A*S*H on TV
I hope that I made you smile
Made you wanna stay for a while
I hope I made you feel the way that I felt
When I felt... anything at all
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Matt Moran Altus, Oklahoma
Matt Moran & the Palominos make existential country music.
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