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Rote Revival

by Calamity Row

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1.
Live Wire 02:36
You know that I’m a live wire walking on a tightrope skating on thin ice barely out of range balanced on the edge but you’re a sort of constant a repeat offender a crooked little vein can’t be summed up in a sad cliche just raise your head and look away. needle in a haystack sleeping in a minefield caught in the crossfire shackled to the tracks and you’re a bitter reject an accidental outlaw a sacrificial dagger slipping through the cracks
2.
Lost Faith 04:41
Washed up on river, like a man without a name Burned all my money, pouring whiskey on the flames Gonna get back on the plow, before they put me in the ground Thought I found the answer, in someone I could trust Wound up in the desert, with a pocket full of dust Coming down for way too long, tell me why I’m holding on Before I fall into pieces Before I’m swept up off the floor Why don’t you give me one good reason I can’t find one anymore I hear the dogs a’ barking, right behind my heels Lost on the highway, salvation on the wheel Gonna shake the devil loose, time has come to face the truth Before I fall into pieces Before I’m swept up off the floor Why don’t you give me one good reason I can’t find one anymore Woke up this morning, on the wrong side of town Gonna need a hammer, just to lay my body down Tear the nails right off the cross, tell the lord I’m jumping off Before I fall into pieces Before I’m swept up off the floor Why don’t you give me one good reason I can’t find one anymore Before I fall into pieces Before I’m swept up off the floor Why don’t you give me one good reason I can’t find one anymore
3.
Ain't Got Me 04:09
You bought a big red house Just down the street You got a luxury car With plenty of speed You've got everything You could possibly need But not quite, 'cause you ain't got me Each time you left me You made me weep But now I know better I know you set me free You've got all the shit You think that you need But not quite, 'cause you ain't got me Darlin' every time you said goodbye You said it was due to some fault of mine But I know something was burnin' you deep inside But it weren't me Now I might not have All your money But I've got a bottle of whiskey And a bag of weed I've got everything That I'll ever need But you don't, 'cause you ain't got me
4.
Wanderer 04:04
Make my bed now I sleep in it Every single day Till I rolled over and they threw it all away Took the first road out of town Long goodbyes they get me down If I’ve told it once I’ve told it a thousand ways That I became a wanderer The day I learned heartbreak Searching for a place to hide my pain If there’s one thing I know about On those cold and sleepless nights The solitude it I’ve known it once or twice I tried to find self-confidence In the bottom of a glass Wonder if this poor disguise will last Chorus How is it I’ve stayed a-float Out on this leaking boat Tied to a drifting sailor fifty miles down the moat And outside on the riverbank All the towns they seem like home But I don’t dare do stay for fear I’ll find shelter in the bones Chorus
5.
Rote Revival 03:13
the main line is the main drag horsehead disgrace Hokey ghost with liquor lips making eyes without faith hold out for the hollow hold out for the highs plowed below is a cold cold road muddled in with your morbid jigsaw prize chorus put your right hand in the mire put your right foot over mine the tattered wings of your desire were the wreck of 99 put your left foot on the bible swear a little more each day sucked into a rote revival on the wings of 88 8 Pratt street is a brain trust Telegraph is a trap Lafayette’s full of holes and drunks Broadway’s just pigs and prigs and cats Hold onto the hovels hold out for the squeeze it’s a nasty row to hoe you’re a nasty type to have to please
6.
Me Quieres 04:16
It's 3 am mountain time I've been running on empty for a while I guess I'm running from some empty feeling too Thought that i could lose these blues If i just kept strapping on my shoes But there's something keeps my thoughts comin' back to you There's just no place that feels like home No one who doesn't make me wanna be alone I feel a constant pull from somewhere up above But sometimes it can take years To cast aside our fits and fears And set out on the road to find someone to love I saw a river in Argentina And thought about your eyes Felt the desert wind across my face It reminded me of your sighs There's just something about your smile That time cannot erase So baby, tell me Me quieres I ended up in West Virginia I was following the Lost River I thought, surely it would take me somewhere new But it took me to a place That I knew I couldn't stay Baby don't you know I've got a restless spirit too I floated in the warm Pacific And thought of your embrace Flew high over the Andes Thought of the lines along your face There's just something about your smile That time cannot erase So baby, tell me Me quieres Somewhere underneath our skins Is the journey that one day begins The morning we wake up and hear the call There's a myth that's waiting to be writ There's a chapter that cannot be skipped There's a legend that lies deep within us all
7.
I’ll tuck you in and kiss you on the cheek Now don’t wait up for me And leave you dreaming that I’m coming home Before you get to sleep In the light of the waxing moon I will cry for you But soon the night will be electrified And I will be renewed Here’s one for you and two for me Three sheets to the wind and four to sleep And I will change my life for thee It won’t be long before my confidence is gone And I will be returned Soon my thoughts they take another life When I can’t choose my words Here’s one for you and two for me Three sheets to the wind and four to sleep And I will change my life for thee I stagger on until the last drink is gone And my debts are paid But I can’t delay, I can’t delay The pain that’s heading my way
8.
Looking across the ocean, standing on the shore I'd said come to find you, and on my life I swore Tell my love she's blowin’ out to sea When will you blow on back to me Nine years have gone with nothing left to show Just a box of photos from a life lived long ago Tell my love she’s still in my heart Through it all we’ve never been apart Here I go, where I don’t know Running til my shadow never grows Here I go, where I don’t know Tell me why these winds never blow Her back home… Locked up in the cellar, chained up to a bar Torturin’ my soul, just wondering where you are Tell my love I ain’t seen the day Those memories have locked me away Running to fast to think, thinking to fast to drive I thought I saw her pass me, but I couldn’t trust my eyes Tell my love I think I’m going blind She’s still the back of my mind Here I go, where I don’t know Running til my shadow never grows Here I go, where I don’t know Tell me why these winds never blow Her back home… Back in the city, stumbling through the crowd Looking for her face, in a haze of a cloud Tell my love I’m back here all alone Those cold winds will cut to the bone Last time saw her she was standing on the beach Frozen tear drops down the sides of her cheeks Tell my love I keep no regrets A love like our’s we won’t soon forget Here I go, where I don’t know Running til my shadow never grows Here I go, where I don’t know Tell me why these winds never blow Her back home…
9.
One night I left for old Virginia Said goodbye but not a tear I cried And I strolled out to that lonesome roadside While the moon it cast a ghostly light Now my ride it took me through Montana As the trees they turned to rolling hills And I left the snow capped Rocky Mountains That I’d known for the best years of my life She was standing by an old grey aspen Her hair was long long than before When we’d met she gave me a canyon That I knew we would never fill Like a door I passed through the Midwest Made my way through the straw bales piled high Mr Twain your stories aren’t forgotten Of the mighty Mississippi running wide Chorus But my dreams soon they were broken By the rain and the distant thunder fell Now sometimes I still think of finding You again but I know I never will
10.
Norma 03:59
Oh Norma lay her head across her plate and where were we when the squalor of the trenches sealed her fate once in a daze it all felt squared away stealing trinkets from the dead Oh Norma rays of hope are commonplace you’re looking more like Edith Scob in "eyes without a face" once in a maze the world was laid to waste losing sleep wasting breath somewhere some ocean far away a ragged old man in a submarine waits somehow someone’s gonna pay, the senator bloviates selling tickets for the grave over my head behave
11.
Calamity Row 04:06
When living is rough and life's got you on your knees When lost all your luck and sold all your luxuries Bring it on home to the lowest edge of town You can beat an old dog but you ain't gonna keep us down Did you lose the feeling? Did ya sell the farm? Tell me now who the hell’s gonna keep you warm? Oh no baby don't you wanna go Back on home, back to calamity row Down on the row they all talk about the golden rule, But it don't apply to them liars and god damned fools When the law catches on they'd love to see us hang, The streets might change but the song remains the same Why don't you quit complaining And go work for the man? Are all your dreams just a flash in the pan? Oh no baby don't you wanna go Back on home, back to calamity row We’re back on the row for ninety days or more Braking them rocks on the banks of the eastern shore So why don’t put on your suit and learn how to behave You can sing for your bread with one foot in the grave Ain’t living easy When you’re high on the hog? Tell me now where the hell did you go wrong? Oh no baby don't you wanna go Back on home, back to calamity row
12.
Wild Wonder 04:23
I remember those sultry July nights you’d pick me up on the back of your motorbike we’d steal away into the dark of night I’d wear that red dress that I know you like The smell of your sweat mixed with motor oil it was enough to make my blood boil I try to keep my nose clean try to take less than I give but trouble always seems to figure out where I live Baby you’re a quiet calm he’s a distant thunder you’re a slow train coming he’s a wild wonder how many lives can you make when your days are numbered how many hearts do you break if you’re a wild wonder You caught me at a crossroad with nothing but gas to burn I rode all the way through morning still didn’t know which way to turn if I left right now I wouldn’t need a map there ain’t a thing in this world can help you lose your past Baby you’re a quiet calm he’s a distant thunder you’re a slow train coming he’s a wild wonder how many lives can you make when your days are numbered how many hearts do you break if you’re a wild wonder Baby you’re a quiet calm he’s a rolling thunder you’re a slow train coming I’m a wild wonder how many lives can you make when your days are numbered how many hearts do you break if you’re a wild wonder

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released May 1, 2016

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