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Bury Me Sweet Ghost

by The Maledictions

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All I've Left Behind 02:05
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When you wake You will find All I've left behind My long black coat And my digging spade Pocketful stones And a hatful of rain All I've left behind Pawned a watchful Of second chances For a compromising Set of circumstances Buried her halo On the side of the road Down deep where The clover grows All I've left behind Shatter your knees On a storefront prayer And it all becomes So midnight clear The moon's a pearl From a broken string Forgotten until Its lost again All I've left behind When you wake You will find All I've left behind My long black coat And my digging spade Pocketful stones And a hatful of rain
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Don't You Grieve 03:08
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Red moon rising Through the pines Glaring down Like some evil eye House so dark Hills so silent All is still But my mind's a riot Well, the clock keeps tolling like a funeral bell Babe, you still cast quite a spell Branches bowed in reverend shame Holding court o'er the mess we made But don't you grieve Don't you grieve Oh no darling Don't you grieve Well, things never fall according to plan The Fates are blind but they've buys hands Try and through them off the scent And they come howling back without repent Yeah, no repent No repent Howling back Without repent Well, it sends a chill up and down my spine How lines get crossed and hands get tied Holding on to nothing left Darling, I swear you'll be my death But don't you grieve Don't you grieve Oh no darling Don't you grieve Go and play The child bride Girl, our trial Has been tried Jury's hung Swinging from the gallows Beware of the verdict Lurking in the shadows But don't you grieve Don't you grieve Oh no darling Don't you grieve
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Less Than Kind 03:46
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Dead leaves gossip round my heels as I go from town to town The women whisper and back they turn, casting judgement down Just a ghost of a shadow drifting through the corners of wary eyes And every sorry turn I take, strangers are less than kind Drag the lake, let loose the hounds but you learn to leave no trace No hint, no rumor, no scrap of lie; No nightmare out of place Part the curtains of this ragged coat I've come to call my home Do you see any shame or pity friend, or something best left alone? Seasons change, trees bloom and fall but brother, its all the same No matter where I drag these bones, its in winter's darkest day Once my silver spurs they shone and the women flowed like wine And where once all heads did turn, now strangers are less than kind Surprised to see me after all this time, after raising so much Cain Who's this heap of rags grinning at your door, bringing all this rain Just a ghost of a shadow drifting through the corners of wary eyes And every sorry turn I take, strangers are less than kind Strangers are less than kind
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Restless Stranger 03:29
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Take my hand, restless stranger And let thunder die Your madrigal plays at finer things Than the wicked world outside Wicked world outside Cast me down among your senses And let your starlings go Dissemble my tin soldier defenses And all I've ever known All you'll ever know Shake off those solitaire wings And lay your furies down One blind step and its all a dream That keeps me coming round Keeps me coming round Take my hand, restless stranger And let your towers fall Your augery and talisman Are no good here at all No good here at all Shake off those solitaire wings And lay your furies down One blind step and its all a dream That keeps me coming round Keeps me coming round Keeps me coming round Keeps me coming round Keeps me coming round Keeps me coming round
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Sucker's Progress 01:56
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Dancing the dervish neath a blood stained moon With a belly full of wrack and a bottle full of ruin Can't row yourself to heaven with a silver spoon Swipe some mother's prayer and give the devil his due You're either on the river or in the hat Once you sink so low, there's no crawling back Every game is rigged in between the cracks Lay your money down, hear the shadows laugh Cat house Jenny with the far off eyes Took a lethal dose of that Suicide Rye Sing about an alley called, Paradise Another Penny Dreadful for tomorrow's headlines Lay your winnings down in a field of stone Whisper her name as the dead willows blow Hear the Piper whistling through a hollow bone Out this far, there's only one train home Dancing the dervish neath a blood stained moon With a belly full of wrack and a bottle full of ruin Can't row yourself to heaven with a silver spoon Swipe some mother's prayer and give the devil his due
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Blow Wind Blow 02:19
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Stumbled through the eye of a hangman's noose Took a walk in a dead man's shoes Neath the eye of a buzzard sun Found the bones of an old dead mission From border town to border town My six guns made their sacred rounds Preacher squawked of his higher call Left his brains on a shit house wall Blow wind blow Blow wind blow Blow wind blow Blow wind blow Blow me on, I won't let go Wept in a house of ill repute Paid her off with a golden tooth Left her sleeping by my side Blow wind blow and away I ride Blow wind blow Blow wind blow Blow wind blow Blow wind blow Blow me on, I won't let go Stumbled through the eye of a hangman's noose Took a walk in a dead man's shoes
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Tomorrow Is Yesterday 02:32
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Down at the bottom Where the sun's gone blind Dreams take your memories And leave them behind Keep your eye on the sparrow Storm's closing in All mother's prayers So soon turn to sin Say so long to tomorrow And tears on a Sunday For tomorrow Is yesterday Farewell Mariana With the sea in her eyes Walk troubled waters And the rose never dies Pocketful of wish bones And sun parts the clouds Address all your sorrows To a room with no house Say so long to tomorrow And tears on a Sunday For tomorrow Is yesterday Say so long to tomorrow And tears on a Sunday For tomorrow Is yesterday For tomorrow Is yesterday
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No End, No Grave 03:52
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Outlawed neath a bloodstained sky So desert far from where you lie Held your hand in the pouring rain Now no needle's going to kill this pain Who can tell blue from grey Ain't no sides, once the Piper's paid So wish upon a distant train And hold onto tomorrow's rain There ain't no end and there ain't no grave For all the love that was laid to waste Down in the holler in your yellow dress Smiling silent as the sun that sets Dark eyes lost, such mystery Turning all the light on inside of me My sweet magnolia, burning bright Candle lost to endless night So hang your head at the end of this world It only brings back just a ghost of a girl There ain't no end and there ain't no grave For all the love that's never seen its day So hold on to tomorrow's rain And wish upon a distant train There ain't no end and there ain't no grave For all the love that you couldn't save
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Shiver 03:21
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Shot her down and dumped her in the river For no reason than she gave my heart a shiver Let the current have its way Let all the good folk kneel and pray, "Its all part of God's plan" Its all part of God's plan Pretty Polly or Cathy Brown Don't know why it all went down What's a man with a gun in his hand Against a world he don't understand Its all part of God's plan Its all part of God's plan Led sweet Sally through the wood In nothing but a hangman's hood Left her swinging from a lover's tree All the morning birds did sing, "Its all part of God's plan" Its all part of God's plan Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Its all part of God's plan Its all part of God's plan Ain't no reason, ain't no rhyme Left that Knoxville girl to die Gave her my heart, gave her my soul Tossed her ring in a fresh dug hole Its all part of God's plan Its all part of God's plan Call her Amy, Beth or Kay Darkness ends the brightest day All cut down without a care In a world beyond despair Its all part of God's plan Its all part of God's plan Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Shot her down and dumped her in the river For no reason than she gave my heart a shiver
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Laura 02:49
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Laura Laura close your prayers There's no place left to hide Winter's stripped the dogwood's bare And its cold as the grave tonight Held you neath the bearded oaks Summer stars did fall All so suddenly gone to ghost Pictures turned to the wall Laura Laura remember well A dark eyed roving man Who lay with him and cast aside The one who knelt at hand Laura Laura what has become Of your dark eyed handsome groom Left you cold and all alone Barren as the tomb Laura Laura let fall your gown Pay the chill no mind Lay yourself beside me now For its cold in this grave tonight Laura
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Lay Me Down 03:44
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Lay me down and kick the drum Somewhere neath a setting sun The doctor always comes at dawn Parting curtains foul hands have drawn Can hear you laughing neath the veil Somewhere just beyond the pale Give me something, just a ghost Who's left now to carry the rose Guns a blazing, I cut a path A crooked trail of epitaphs Left my good book out in the rain Tear through the pages but its all in vain Just lay me down Oh, lay me down Darling, lay me down Oh, lay me down Stakes were raised, axes fell A stone in the sheets keeps it down the well The crows have scattered, willow's on fire Spare me the heavenly choir And just lay me down oh, lay me down Darling, lay me down Oh, lay me down Spade cuts the dirt the drifter ploughed A fistful for a gingham shroud There in hand and gone the next So many phantoms laid to rest Just lay me down Oh, lay me down Darling, lay me down Oh, lay me down Darling, lay me down Oh, lay me down Darling, lay me down Just lay me down
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O Bury Me Sweet Ghost 03:13
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Stumbled through the barbed wire groves Left them jailhouse strings behind Seen all my yesterdays turn to stone Under sepia clouds and rhyme A spoon in the thistle won't dig you out When you've fallen six feet down Now what's done is done Just open your eyes O bury me sweet ghost of mine Nothing cuts like the Queen of Hearts Running off with the Suicide King But you can't cheat the Fiddler Once the drinking starts Lord, the trouble I've seen Carved my name in the Heaven Tree Raising hell for the company Now what's done is done Just open your eyes O bury me sweet ghost of mine Strangle a prayer and make it kneel But you're only as good as what you steal I'm so far from that wisteria breeze And living off a gooseberry lay But to see you standing in the memory Keeps these boots from turning into clay Hold on to nothing as long as you can And maybe someday you'll understand What's done is done Just open your eyes O bury me sweet ghost of mine Bury me sweet ghost of mine Bury me sweet ghost of mine

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released February 7, 2017

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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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