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Siren Song
03:45
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Neris hangs around the bar,
Where all the lonely fellows are
Her hair cascades in waves,
Her fingers cold, her eyes are gray
He spies her from 'cross the room
The bar goes silent as a tomb
His speech is numb, too dumb to think
She whispers, "Hey sailor, buy me a drink"
The drought within me
Has me aching dry
I know you can quench me
I can see it in your eyes
Once they both are loose and wet
Last call comes, she says, "not yet"
I know a place nearby
Where the drink never runs dry
He follows her down to the beach
She walks ahead just out of reach
The mist and gin all clouds his sight
He staggers toward her in the night
Swim my sweet angel
To oblivion with me
You won't be lonely
You can be forever free
Her limbs embrace him like an eel
The last inky, black thing he'd feel
And as his soul began to slip
He felt this prayer pour out her lips
Here I commit you to
Your watery grave
Sink deep into the arms
Of my icy waves
Eye for an eye
And bone for bone
Send my true love
Safely home
So lonely sailors should take heed
She'll sacrifice you for what she needs
One thousand men are sent to see
To set her ocean lover free
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2. |
Arsenic & Ginger
05:30
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CHORUS
Pour me, pour me, pour me
An arsenic and ginger
And I'll watch it, watch it, watch it
All drift away
They say if you take it in small doses
It'll be okay
VERSE 1
I came out west in January
She caught my eye on the weekend ferry
I offered my coat, said she looked cold
She asked if I ever feel just how I'm told
The warmth in his heart was in the coat that he gave
I saw in his eyes he was looking for someone to save
But I'm not a hobby horse to fix or to heal
He asked if I'm ever told just how to feel
CHORUS
VERSE 2
She was my constant, my star in the sky
To live without her, I'd rather die
I gave her a ring, she wrung out a laugh
Said nothing this pure is destined to last
I knew someday he'd leave like the others before
He can't watch my hands, with his eyes on the door
I'd rather blow us to hell, then suffer more loss
Snatching defeat from victory's jaws
CHORUS
VERSE 3
If it's a battle of wills, we're both destined to loose
To be right or be lonely you don't have to choose
You can chisel away at me every day
To prove my love I choose to stay (I will push you away)
So poison me slow with all of your love
We'll race to the bottom, see what we're made of
From the moment I met you, I knew you'd break my heart
If you couldn't finish it, why did you start?
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3. |
This Town
03:37
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It's been almost a year
Since the last time I was here
Emotional evisceration
Null but ashes in my mouth
Waiting for the heat to break
So I could fly away down south
This town once prompted me to sing
Now I'm hard-pressed to feel a thing
My teeth were sharpened my words
And they are gnawing my insides
And I am drowning in the preface
I am clawing at the tides
But I'll go blind, and lose my mind
Reading the letters he sent to me
And they're all signed yours truly
As he once was
It faded too, as they all do
And now I'm lost in this town
I came back to this town
Just because
You say you're drifting through this place
Haunted by ghosts we can't erase
We had dreams and aspirations
Future selves we had to be
We were taming wild stallions
That we would ride towards destiny
We used to stay up all night long
Workshopping, fumbling through our songs
Cashing coins in to buy 40s
Or put something in our cup
Now we're a long way from that river
Where we'd watch that sun come up
What to do? Drifting through
And I am lost in this town
I'm so lost in this town,
God it's true
And in my time, I will find
That I'd be lost in this world
I'd be lost in this world, without you
Without you
Nothing motivates like sad
This is the most motivation that I've had
But I would rather cry my heart out
Yukon river through my eyes
Then to never have felt nothing
To have won that dead-eyed prize
We'll play the show, it's all we know
But I'm still lost in this town
Every town is this town
What to do
The thing that's pure, that I'm sure
That I'd be lost in this world
I'd be lost in this world
Without you
Just grab your amp, we'll set up camp
Make a go of this town
We can rule over this town
From the stage
And if it's wrong, we'll just move on
Make a home in this world
We're at home in this world
Everywhere we've played
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Arsenic & Ginger Portland, Oregon
Born from a love for Okkervil River, The Handsome Family, and Nick Cave - Arsenic & Ginger write songs on the edge of love and obsession, monsters and angels. After years of late-night sing alongs and jams, A&G came to be during a stormy, winter week on the Oregon coast, combining the lyrical, story-forward songwriting of Myra Mains and Kyle Glenn. ... more
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