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For Louisiana

by Rod Gator

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1.
August 29 03:48
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Momma crying in the kitchen  Daddy told another lie  Doctor said better play it cool boy   One more drink and ya prolly gonna die     Hurricane forming down in the gulf  Mandatory but we never gonna leave   Poppa’s drunk yelling at them storm clouds   Mother Nature got nothing on me     Shadows dancing in the moonlight   Waters rise how long can I stand   Last rites painted on a tin roof  The wicked man’s got death on his hands     Face down floating in the water  Roof top cooking in the sun  Helicopter flying high overhead   Left behind ain’t no fortunate one    Gun shots echo through the city   Red lights coming cross the ridge   Young men left behind in cold blood  Evil lurks neath the Danziger Bridge     Shadows dancing in the moonlight   Waters rise how long can I stand   Last rites painted on a tin roof  The wicked man’s got death on his hands (hands, hands, hands)    Momma crying in the kitchen  Daddy told another lie  Doctor said better play it cool boy   One more drink and ya prolly gonna die  
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Mermentau Bridge 03:36
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Well Brian and me were getting high neath the Mermentau Bridge  Down where the moss hangs low and the muddy water meets the ridge   It wasn't so long ago round here yeah I swore I was stuck  Y'all it's a hell of a thing getting high where you grew up     And see the sun bouncing off the water  Colored with yellow, green and red  Oh, Brian and me there we hid  Getting high neath the Mermentau Bridge    Well the storms cloud came and the moon it started to rise   Could feel the red hue starting to form in each other's eyes  Could hear the music playing softly and the cars passing overhead   Just a passing back and forth that left handed cigarette     Could see the sun bouncing off the water  Colored with yellow, green and red  Oh, Brian and me there we hid  Getting high neath the Mermentau Bridge    Well she grew up a few miles outside of town   You know everyone around here they just put her down  And I remember a time back when we were both so young   Can feel her lips touch mine as she exhales into my lungs    Could see the sun bouncing off the water  Colored with yellow, green and red  Oh, her and me there we hid  Getting high neath the Mermentau Bridge  Oh, her and me there we hid  Getting high neath the Mermentau Bridge 
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Chickenhawk 03:31
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Well I don’t wanna die for the con man  No I don’t wanna go and take Fallujah again   I’d rather be working for the city and that minimum wage  Instead of pacing back and forth like a dog in a cage     Well the older ones ignite it   While the younger ones fight it  Young men dying while they squawk   Chickenhawk     My generation been at war nearly twenty years   A never ending death rattle that nobody hears   Nothing but empty shells, yellow ribbons on the wall  Another empty expression down at the legion hall     Well the older ones ignite it   While the younger ones fight it  Young men dying while they squawk   Chickenhawk   Chickenhawk    Brother give me a sign brother give me your word   Give a voice to the voiceless, the ones that go unheard   Truth is they don’t give a shit, lord knows they never will  I’m just another number, he’s just another kill    Well the older ones ignite it   While the younger ones fight it  Young men dying while they squawk     Watch the older ones scatter  While the younger ones riot   Young men dying while they squawk    Catch the world on fire  We’ll be the first to ignite it  Old men dying while they squawk    Chickenhawk  Chickenhawk  Chickenhawk 
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Out Here in Echo Park 04:18
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Well I been walking these city streets   Can hear the whispers of the ones before   A thousand miles from my home   A thousand miles from the place I was born    Down there where Benton and Bellevue meet  She stands there throwing fireworks in the street  She pulls her hair back lights a cigarette   Can't find no reason to leave just yet    Hey baby the night's on fire  Won't you come out maybe burn for a while     Out here in Echo Park  Out here in Echo Park  We could use the spark  Out here in Echo Park     Passing people that I swore I knew  Can hear folks cheering for the white and blue  Spanish music plays on the radio   Down there on Sunset and Coronado     Hey baby the night's on fire  Won't you come out and maybe burn for a while     Out here in Echo Park  Out here in Echo Park  We could use the spark  Out here in Echo Park     Out here in Echo Park  Out here in Echo Park  We could use the spark  Out here in Echo Park     Out here in Echo Park  Out here in Echo Park  We could use the spark  Out here in Echo Park 
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Your Goodbye 04:36
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There was a time when I stumbled   Folks would look at me in shame   The things I did to hide my sorrow   That was long before you came     But the first time that I saw you  Oh where should I begin  The love I'd always longed for  Swore I'd found myself again     But here I am in a barroom   Doing what I swore I wouldn't do   Trying hard to erase your memory  Trying to cleanse myself of you     Oh and we once swore forever   But that forever was a lie   Well them meetings might've kept me clean   They didn't help with your goodbye     Found your picture in a drawer  Still can't stand to see your face   And your voice it still lingers  I still feel you in this place     And all my friends say I should move on  They all worry bout my health   But I could never let someone new in  I shouldn't involve someone else     Cause here I am in a barroom   Doing what I swore I wouldn't do   Trying hard to erase your memory  Trying to cleanse myself of you     Oh and we once swore forever   But that forever was a lie   Well them meetings might've kept me clean   They didn't help with your goodbye     I said them meetings might've kept me clean   They didn't help with your goodbye  
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For Louisiana 03:18
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When the stage is empty and the crowd is gone  I find myself standing here all alone  I pace back and forth in the parking lot  Asking myself is it worth it or not     Can hear them big wheels whine on the open highway  Gotta leave tomorrow I could never stay  My mind starts drifting through the smoke and the haze  I find myself thinking ‘bout the place I was raised     Well highway won’t you take me  I give you all I plead  For Louisiana, a cypress sunset  And a cool cool breeze  I said for Louisiana, a cypress sunset  And a cool cool breeze     Well here in my hometown things stay the same  It’s been thirty-one years here ain’t nothing change  What the hell am I doing living life this way  My momma and my daddy getting older each day     Aw, but I’m in too deep now this is all I know  And if I gave it all up they’d say I told you so  See them boys at the station waiting for a ride  Gonna buy me a ticket leave it all behind     Well highway won’t you take me  I give you all I plead  For Louisiana, a cypress sunset  And a cool cool breeze  I said for Louisiana, a cypress sunset  And a cool cool breeze     Well, some nights I swear I see her face in the crowd  But we both know she’s been long gone now  I still carry her memory I’m never alone  I hear her sweet voice singing won’t you carry me home     Well highway won’t you take me  I give you all I plead  For Louisiana, a cypress sunset  And a cool cool breeze  I said for Louisiana, a cypress sunset  And a cool cool breeze 
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Idle Hands 03:46
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Idle hands like anchors   Are weighing me down   And hatred like water   It floods my hometown    I'll dig up my seed from the ground     Home  I'm never going home   Part of me is gone  I'm never going home     Bonded by hatred   You been left out to dry   And I no longer find comfort   Where change goes to die    You couldn't change my mind if you tried     Home  I'm never going home   I'm better off alone  I'm never going home    For now on my bloodline  It'll flow downstream   Give life to a newborn   Dead fields turn to green    And hatred will not show   It's face here no more  I've left it all behind me now   I've done closed that door     My dreams spread cross the shore     Home  I'm never going home   Part of me is gone  I'm never going home    Home  I'm never going home   I'm better off alone  I ain't never going home 
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Staying in Time 04:27
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Just one more show and then I'm gone  Aw just one more show and then I'm gone   But who am I fooling   The beat goes on  Yeah and I'm the one keeping time   Yeah I'm the one staying in time     Well I lost em all out on the road   Yeah I lost em all out on the road  And I carry their memory   My heavy load   Yet I'm the one keeping time   Still I'm the one staying in time     Well I hear them calling through their song   Yeah they're always calling through their song   They say you can't stop now   The beat goes on  Yeah and you're the one keeping time  Yeah you're the one staying in time  Oh I'm the one keeping time  Yeah I'm the one staying in time   Yeah! 

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released September 17, 2021

Produced by Adrian Quesada & Will Walden

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