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I Sold My Soul on Gallatin Road
Verse 1
I sold my soul down on Gallatin Road
cause everywhere I go there’s someone who knows
Chorus 1&3
They came from the go west young man
they came from the dark
they came from the places
I shut down down in my heart
they come from Brooklyn
under the BQE
they don’t give a goddamn goddamn
what you’re doing to me
yeah I sold my soul down on Gallatin Road
cause everywhere I go
it’s like I’m drinking with ghosts
I’m drinking with ghosts
Verse 2
Love on paper is a beautiful thing
love’s what you came for not what you bring
Chorus 2
They came from the DTLA
the golden lands
they came from the lakeshore still high
thirtysomething again
they came with a card and a girlfriend
a hope and a lie
I see that new leather jacket still fits
it gets smoky at night
yeah I sold my soul down on Gallatin Road
cause everywhere I go
it’s like I’m drinking with ghosts
I’m drinking with ghosts
Bridge
Give it some spin give it a ring spend the night with him
after kissing me
give it some spin give it a ring spend the night with him
for what you’ll never be you’ll never be
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Kurt Cobain and Jesus
Verse 1 D C D C G (2x) Em D
You’re the one hellbent Johnny Reb
a little girl a little boy stuck here on forget
all they have left
let them see let them see nothing they’ll regret
the King of Cups ain’t enough to return your heart to red
so you dream instead
those saints go marching between us
making your lies cleaner
Chorus G C
Everyone wants a savior everyone’s seen a ghost
everyone wants to believe what they believe the most
I’ve seen you leave on Sunday to keep those secrets close
but I’ve been fucking honestly through a love of rock and roll
like Kurt Cobain and Jesus
these are words with meaning
Verse 2
Come kick me down we’ll hide out in the sheets
you kiss me now cancel out heavens in between
on your summer street
the western sound so underground you could call it pornography
it’s razor blood listening close to some holy Aberdeen
with me
Bridge Em D C D
Keep leaving when I need you
keep saying I can’t explain you
keep praying I’ll forgive you
I’ll leave you
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East Nashville
Verse 1
Wait you’re a little late
like fate you knock on the door
with weed and a burlesque dancer
I got no need for your answers
love is a boy on Eastland
love is a light when you’re freezing
it’s a liquor store belief when
Chorus
I need fire
you need smoke
Verse 2
Life is a trust fund baby
get a knife if you want to change me
love is a girl on Ordway
shut up she said she’d kill me
it’s a do or die scene again
Bridge
Come on down to the armory
they’re playing a song about you and me
come on down to the railroad tracks
I’ll borrow you and you won’t get me back
I got some pills
Outro
I laughed at the last joke
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Stargazers
Verse 1 C G F C Am G F C
It was about the time I started to find
I was bored with everything
no pill I could take no drink I could fake
could settle down these hymns
we broke up a couple times
of course that’s how it is
I heard you slept with 15 men
did you find a better way to live
your eyes left to right
read like a good fight
Chorus F G (3x) Am F C G
One painted wall for stargazers
you call it outsider pretending
the blue blinds the skyline religion
tonight their light is ours
Verse 2
You can fall in love with a dusty map
hung high to help you sleep
you can wish you lived on the meridian
where the drugs are thick and sweet
I broke up a couple lives
and it meant nothing to me
so if you to hold me close
just whisper geography
in this town I’ve found
they can’t hear past the sound of
Bridge Am C
Give me a war I’ve never fought before
give me a war the one I’ve been waiting for
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Outside A L.A Rock Club
Intro riff Em D G
Verse 1 Em G Am G D C G (2x) C G D
Slap me hard on Sunset Boulevard
I breathe in some Morehead City tar
that lighter shines in waves of gold
that girl she knows what her heart is for
her shirt is shorter than the time before
so we inhale the fire before we get old
I'll break the western sky to save you and I
that dries like silver in the cold
Chorus C D Em (2x) Am F D
Time might fall dead and blind
to fix these California lies
I designed a country made of wicked alibis
that won't survive this night
(no I won’t survive tonight)
Verse 2
Sleep is wild I fall on hallway tile
we raced a LA city mile
laced with anger lost on shitty weed
call the cops you’re thinking it will shut me up
I'm staring down the fight of a freeway love
it takes an excuse like a mental disease
I'll break the western high if you say that you and I
fall like jet trail lucid dreams
Bridge Am G Am D
You’re like me just crazy
when the world goes sane
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Ghosts Of New Orleans
03:10
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Ghosts of New Orleans
Verse 1
Somewhere down on Magazine Street
the starlight and the methadone leaves
your boyfriend’s got a plan to get us out of here
he’s got a rope and a six-pack of beer
I heard they keep the fire just two blocks away
but your words and your walk don’t equate
I had a lesson in gin at the Bayou Bar
now I’m killing off sparks I’m knifing the stars
for you for you
they know I’m through I’m through
Chorus
Kill ‘em off while they’re listening
another hour before we leave
there’s no use in breaking my heart
when you can barely breathe
kill ‘em off while they’re haunting
the river floods to your knees
I got a thing for a boy unchristened
I don’t think you believe
Verse 2
It’s like I’m looking at a teenage me
in the halls at St Francisville
you can drive on by with a smile on your face
say it’s all gone against your will
I heard they keep your lies by an old oak tree
where the reverend and the new city meet
burning down the pages of a first real love
so you keep getting closer to me
it’s all the same
when you cover a flame
Bridge
No one ever lives forever
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Ike Turner
04:18
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Ike Turner
Intro Chorus 4
Verse 1 (2x)
I got you on your knees tonight
I got where the world feels just right
I got you waiting for another chance
you call it romance and we start to dance
are you ready for the latest ghost
I’m just the other devil take it slow
Pre-Chorus
I like my love to be true
Chorus
It’s a good life you know you just begin
you take it on you shoot it where it lives
you look good when the drugs kick in
(double time) and Memphis is a Mercedes Benz
Memphis is a Mercedes Benz
Verse 2 (1/2)
I got you hooked on the simple things
blood desire and adrenalin
I got you where’s the water’s going black
and just like Buckley no you can’t come back
Pre-Chorus
Chorus
Bridge + Solo
I’m going do it again
Pre-Chorus 3x I like my love to be true
Chorus
Outro
Kiss me first you’re a sinner I’m a saint
kiss me first I’m the bad one no you ain’t
kiss me first I’m the depakote for the pain
kiss me first I’m the clinic you’re the sane
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The Swear Atlanta, Georgia
THE CLINIC AND THE SANE is a defiant return to lead singer/guitarist Elizabeth Elkins' punk rock past inspired by five years of writing country music and playing by Music Row's rules. Rhythm section Kevin Williams (bass) and Kent Aberle (drums) snarl and twist through songs that can only be described as the New York Dolls on an all-night Leonard Cohen bender, with hints of Hum and the Damned. ... more
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