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Doug Davis - Lay Down Your Arms

from Round 29, Week 9 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Well, some weeks you work on something quickly and it's better than you expect, and some weeks you put in all kinds of time, and it's still a disappointment. That's the latter for me this week, I'm afraid. I had high hopes for this one early one, angling for a Band-type feel, but I'm not sure it added up to much. Might just be a crappy demo. I'll have to come back to it after a little time has passed, and see if it holds any water.

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I heard the steps
Cross the railway yard
The jack of clubs
In a cloud of cards
With the tethers tight
to keep the bindle’s ghosts
I’ll send you word
When I reach the coast

Outside Slidell
They stole my boots
These brown shirt boys
pressed new recruits
I miss your voice
It’s been so long
I miss the bitter rasp of

spite in your song

I loved you through the thunder

I loved through the flood
but the morning will sound no alarms
There’s a time for the blazing

a time to fight fire
But the time has come to
lay down your arms

I most forgot
What this feels like
The fist unclenched
The fever spiked
I’ll save in state
This rusty chain
I won’t forget
Who robbed the rain

I loved you through the thunder

I loved through the flood
but the morning will sound no alarms
There’s a time for the blazing

a time to fight fire
But the time has come to
lay down your arms

Dreamed that dream again
The checkpoints locked in
someone traced their name in blood
The transports full to bust
The rigs left to rust
dogtags lying in the mud

I loved you through the thunder

I loved through the flood
but the morning will sound no alarms
There’s a time for the blazing

a time to fight fire
But the time has come to
lay down your arms

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from Round 29, Week 9, released November 9, 2020

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