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Slothrop's Ghost

from The Jazz Age by The City Streets

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lyrics

Get a back road atlas some gas and water. We'll drive 'till twilight just don't bother trying to sleep tonight, there's a path to take. If it leads to nowhere that was my mistake. If it's true then I'm amazed, all these years gone past we're falling in love again. There's no way of knowing how much tragedy we'll face. I've loved people who end up in total disgrace. We'll leave this town's full of people who stomp your soul into the frozen ground. I called you from Chicago inside the creeping dawn. I told you of the madness but not what I was on. To feel this much for all time can be a heavy load. My heart's an arcing rocket where will it explode? I was limping through old Europe trying to make the most. Searching for some divinity, I ran into Slothrop's ghost. He had been with Tritcht McGill, smoking hash and making love. Under a grey German gloom, a screaming sky the bombs above. He said if you're not careful this world will tear you all apart. It'll lose your laugh, your identity for some wretched work of art. That the power created, the rest of us call it war. So tell me what this heart, tell me what this heart is for. Help me get back to that place where we were wild but still strong. We gotta help each other out, god its been so long. Since we did something honest just because it's right. But the rock n' roll cliche has been up every single night. Now I'm listening to GP just to make myself feel alright about this man's ruin. I grew up on the northside it don't matter which city. It's the dark side of the freeway. It's the cold side of the freeway. We are charmed but melancholy in the morning. We are charmed but getting older. Can we claim our shadows are they a part of us? We spent years in the caves shining lights into mirrors, a spectral fury guiding some new vision. Searching for the lost colour. If you say it could you mean it? If you do this now nothing you did before means anything. Darling...you're my June Carter. You just kinda saved my life. Fuck the war. We're in love.

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from The Jazz Age, released July 12, 2010
Linda Bull - strings
Aaron Joyce - string arrangement
Jesse Gander - piano

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The City Streets Edmonton, Alberta

Rick Reid, Matt Leddy, Mark Chmilar. 2005-2013. Edmonton/Montreal.

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