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Isabella Rossellini
05:28
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The summer sun was beating down on Paris streets,
I had been up all night on my feet
I was taking one last line with an Algerian guitar player
There were clothes scattered all about the place
A girl all alone, in black rags, staring and giggling into space
She sat down with us she looked like Isabella Rossellini
except for her yellow teeth, and dirty black fingernails
Happiness had gone it had passed her by
I could see it there in her beautiful pale blue eyes
Who did this? Can I help you? What’s your name?
What’s your name?
She just stared and she giggled
She turned to me and said I love your songs
She whispered 'I love your songs'
she had never heard one
Gently with trembling hands she took off her gold neck chain
She handed it to me. She said ‘marry me’.
Then she started crying
What happened? where did it go?
Did it all just stop?
The love, the dreams, the whole goddamn lot?
Did the film simply slip from the reel?
Who hurt you? Who did this?
Can you still feel?
So gentle, and so mad,
So desperate and so sad
Is there nobody even left to care?
When you're lost, all alone, rambling
All the wheels have fallen off,
is there nobody even left to care?
Is there nobody? Is there nobody? Is there nobody even left to care?
Is there nobody even left to care?
I left her all alone she was smiling
Sitting in the Sun waiting for me to return, waiting on a prayer
Where she sleeps no one knows,
Where she is from, or where she goes
If I could bring back the woman,
bring back Mika tonight,
pull the moon from the night
If I could bring back the woman,
bring back Mika tonight,
pull the moon from the night.
*Cover photo by Jo Meares
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2. |
Diamond Bay
07:57
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1/
I sail the ocean of love
I hear the sirens scream
I touch the horizon
and every point in between
I swim in the river of venus
I drown in her tears
I ride through the black mountains
Alone without fear
I burn with Saint Joan
I bleed with Saint Simon
I fly on the back of an eagle
across the grand canyon
chorus:-
I return to Diamond Bay
To the cliffs and the waves
Those bright winters day
At Diamond Bay
At Diamond Bay
love is so far away
just cliffs and waves
At Diamond Bay
2/
I was always dodging bullets
running for cover
hiding in shadows
from lover to lover
You only ever know
I only ever felt it
when I lost it
when I let it go
I travelled far and wide
I spoke so many languages
I had a clever disguise
Nowhere to hide
chorus
3/
I’m such a stupid man
I let love fall through my hands
I didn’t trust it
I did not understand
That storms will blow
birds will fly away
lovers stop loving
each and every day
All the leaves they fall
days they get shorter
those nights a little colder
Diamond bay
chorus
*Cover photo by Jo Meares
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3. |
Rambo
04:49
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It was over the other side of town
down by the Reeper Bahn
where beautiful women line the streets
in fur coats and long leather boots
they smile at you and try to drag you in
they ask you weird questions
like what do you want?
Wo-oh wo-oh wo....
We came to a doorway
full of graffiti vomit and blood
we burst into a room
full of smoke and black light
there were some men in the corner
slowly dying with a pipe
A giant blonde woman with a German shepherd
in a long leather coat...
Wo-oh wo-oh wo....
The man with the white eyes
he offered me a pipe
he put it in my hand
and I lit the light
the German shepherd
kept staring at me
the giant blonde woman
wanted to kill me
Wo-oh wo-oh wo....
I wanted to get out there
I wanted to run
Rambo said sit still boy
this deal is not done
Just sit still boy
this deal is not done
sit still boy
this deal is not done
Wo-oh wo-oh wo....
They dragged me to little room
said get down on your knees
this won't take long
if tell us as we please
All I said was
Rambo loves his mother
All I ever said was
Rambo loves his mother
Wo-oh wo-oh wo....
*Cover photo by Jo Meares
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4. |
Lone Gun
05:20
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I hide among the shipwrecks
with all the broken misfits
they tell me of lost dreams
what might have been
Down there at Lone Gun
next to Rawhide
I watch that girl dance
with the devil green eyes
…devil green eyes
I got stingray boots
a madonna on my back and she weeps
I got a wolf on my chest
I got gold in my teeth
There is a switchblade in my pocket
right next to my little stash
but if you want a taste
it’s cold hard cash
….cold hard cash
I live on the wrong side of midnight
I live with my only friend sin
Every night we go out dancing
on the head of a pin
I got a slippery neck
every time they go for the cord
every time they summon up the lord
I just slip right through
If you see me on the horizon
a distant murder of crows
best you move right over
to the other side of the road
I hide amongst the shipwrecks
All the broken down misfits
they tell me about their lost dreams
and what might have been
…I don’t believe a word
I don’t believe a God damn word…
*Cover photo by Stu Spence
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5. |
Dead Man In the Room
04:04
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There is no mercy
Down in that place
alone
with a dead man in the room
The door stays shut
feel the cancer and rust
howl at the wolf moon
with a dead man in the room
I felt her kiss
touch my lips
I felt a little sick
with a dead man in the room
The rustle of sheets
floorboards creak
silence shrieks
with a dead man in the room
(chorus)
She was the wind blew down my house of cards
The wretched winter sleet hitting my soul so hard
The leak in the boat, a moonless night
The thing you want to run from but holds you tight
I can hardly breathe
I can never leave
It won’t ever stop
with the dead man in the room
We are alone together
the ticking of the clock
the faucet and the drop
and the dead man in the room
I'm afraid it is true
There is no future
Just me and you
and the dead man in the room
Come to me darling
Don’t be afraid
Lets laugh and play
with a dead man in the room
(chorus)
*Cover photo by Jo Meares
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6. |
An Old Dog and a Shotgun
09:54
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I just want an old dog and a shotgun
I just want an old dog and a shotgun
we'll watch the hills
watch those birds fly away
watch them hills
watch the days fly away
maybe a little whiskey
and a rocking chair
a rusty old cadillac
and a lame old mare
I'm going to bury my chains
take off my hairshirt
forget all the pain
forgive all the hurt
throw me on a plane
any one will do
get me on a train
any one will do
ride with me baby
by my side
saddle up honey
lets go for a ride
I was the only one out surfing today
the waves were dangerous
the water so cold
the light was fading
I was drifting
the water became warm
everything still and black
except for the stars
pulling me upwards
I was the only one out surfing today
*Cover photo by Jo Meares
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Jo Meares Sydney, Australia
Jo Meares will be releasing a LIVE album 19/08/2023.
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