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Doug Davis - Red River

from Round 30, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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Very raw one-take demo. This one is based on Flannery O'Connor's "The River." At best, there's a tangential relation to Dale's request for a song about anxiety. In the source story, the ill-fated boy at the center of the narrative is clearly a whole mess of emotional problems. Anxiety is probably the least of them, although as he interprets or misinterprets the preacher's inspirations (depending on how you read the story), he clearly goes through a period of great frustration trying to make the river accept him. So I'll call that a kind of anxiety.

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First I heard
I ain’t fixed right
everything’s a joke
Saw my name in the
Piece of sky
Through the hole the sun has broke

She took my hand
To the street below
Ready for a boy’s new game
I stole her cloth
I stole her words
And I lied about my name

All the rivers come
From that one before
All the way back to the sea
Lay your pain inside
And you wash away
The water flows around your feet

She led me down
Where the river flowed
preacher sang so sweet
The lame cried high
The sick cried low
The man just shift his feet

“Tell me why you’re here
if that’s why you come
Just turn around and go
Think you’ll leave your pain
at the river side
To be washed away, so slow?”

All the rivers come
From that one before
All the way back to the sea
Lay your pain inside
And you wash away
The water flows around your feet

Won’t find sleep
Til I leave my pain
In the shallows of the
Rich red river flow
In the falling of the rich red rain

Thought I saw some
Paradise
but the face, it disappeared
Plunge my eyes
Til the current caught
No more fury no more fear

All the rivers come
From that one before
All the way back to the sea
Lay your pain inside
And you wash away
The water flows around your feet

Won’t find sleep
Til I leave my pain
In the shallows of the
Rich red river flow
In the falling of the rich red rain

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from Round 30, Week 3, released December 14, 2020

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