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The Maledictions - Torch Song

from TORCH SONGS by THE MALEDICTIONS

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Words & Music by Kevin Orton.© 2013 Kevin Orton (BMI). All rights reserved

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When your wings are broken and its all gone dark
And its raining curtains in all the bars
And every alley's a blind dead end
And dreaming's nothing but spit in the wind

Don't waste your breath on the fireworks
They don't hold a match
To carrying a torch

Don't hand me none of that song & dance
What starts with a bourbon ends up like romance
No, I don't get hurt, no not anymore
Just maybe a touch more cynical

To hell and blazes with your fireworks
They don't hold a match
To carrying a torch

Don't wast your breath on the fireworks
They don't hold a match
To carrying a torch

So ring around the sapphire vine
My hand in yours and yours in mind
Half past last call, finish that shot
And leave me to water my Love-Me-Nots

To hell and blazes with your fireworks
They don't hold a match
To carrying a torch

Don't wast your breath on the fireworks
They don't hold a match
To carrying a torch

Don't hold a match
Don't hold a match
Don't hold a match
Don't hold a match
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[coda]: Mansfield, Ohio

Carousel's firewood
Church is boarded up
Main streets full of ghosts
Down on their luck

What happened to the girl
I used to know
Look the other way
And where did she go

Just like this town
To catch its death
Out in the rain
Past all regret
Just like a girl
I used to know
In a town called
Mansfield, Ohio

Just like a girl
I used to know
In a town called
Mansfield, Ohio

[Words & Music by Kevin Orton. © 2013 Kevin Orton. All rights reserved.]

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from TORCH SONGS, released March 7, 2013
Kevin Orton- vocals, guitar
Andre Fratto- bass, organ, guitar

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The Maledictions New York, New York

The Maledictions' sound has been called "Gothic Americana", "Country Noir" and "Nick Cave meets Johhny Cash". "It's all just Folk Music," says band leader, Kevin Orton, "Maybe aggressive Folk but Folk music...I tend to write songs about people who are uninsured". After a solo album, FEMME NOIR (featuring Gordon Gano), Orton formed The Maledictions. Full discography here from albums to singles. ... more

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