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Lyrics
LANDLOCKED BLUES:
Damn my eyes! Damn the mountains and the oceans and the skies!
Where have you been? Brother I never thought I'd see your face again!
I've been hanging in the balance of this world's unholy scale.
I've been stearing clear of violence, but that hellhound's on my trail.
Now I've done my share of evil, and I've told my share of lies.
Lived in turmoil and upheaval, every breath was compromised.
Goddamn my eyes! Damn the mountains and the oceans and the skies!
I'm not one to bear false witness--won't you keep your ear inclined.
For my convoluted journey was a hard and horrid grind.
In my wandering I sought not some compass to my fame,
But the reason for my reason, and something without a name.
But mostly I encountered on my odious odyssey enough broken, loathesome living
As to pluck the heart from me.
Damn my eyes! Damn the mountains and the oceans and the skies!
Well I see you friend! But I never thought I"d see your face again!
Then I rode out a hellish gale upon a wild and churning sea.
When a massive whale rose and rolled and man, he looked right into me.
And brother at that moment, for the first time, I felt free
Of the slurs and oaths and omens and petty ways that tempered me.
But it wasn't long my brother, 'fore I felt landlocked once again.
And a witless, dim accomplice in the wicked ways of men.
Well they shed me of my wonder, and they shod me in my woe.
And they rumour of a river that roils in black below.
And you pray ye for direction. And you pray ye for a course.
And it sends you ever souther to the mouth of its source.
Goddamn my eyes! Damn the mountains and the oceans and the skies!
Two bottles of Islay! And we'll cloak us in the smoky peat of night!
Yeah, we'll cloak us in the smoky peat of night! etc.
Michael Bradley @2002 FurnaceSongs
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