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Love Song For Molly Davis in the Key of Blue Shoes

from Funeral Songs by St. Anthony And The Mystery Train

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LOVE SONG FOR MOLLY DAVIS IN THE KEY OF BLUE SHOES

Your beauty is a raindrop.
My love is like a train.
Your heart is beating thunder.
And there’s lightning in my brain.

Remember me to Jesus.
When the truth’s lost its way.
And know I was dying.
In your dream of Christmas day.

CHORUS

And all the lovers stare
At my electric chair.
They say I'll burn so beautifully in June.

And the color of the air
Is burned into her hair.
And the shadows that she wears
are gone too soon.

She used to explain
How flowers, fear and pain
Grow together while our children play.
And after cigarettes, coffee and regret
They agreed there were no prayers left to pray.

Verse 2

We got lost in the obsession
for your favorite lullaby.
I listened for you screaming
So I couldn't hear you cry.

Distracted by the blood
With which I wrote my mother's name.
Well, on the prison wall
Where love and sadness are the same.

(Chorus)

They couldn't call it murder.
Even though she can't be found.
In my songbook a confession
Though I never wrote it down.

Carolina Summer Solstice
Cocaine clouds turn into rain.
You can't tell I'm crying
Or make out my Mark of Cain.

(Final Chorus)

Picasso children stare
At the cemetery where
They bury all the dead no one claims.

And that's where she was found
Throwing flowers on the ground
And giving back to all of the lonely dead their names.

Well, I used to explain
How every human stain
Washed off all the roses when she came.

Now I’m in my prison cell
I put on my diving bell.
And I’m content where love and sadness are the same.

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from Funeral Songs, track released May 6, 2016
Written by: T.J. Volgare and David Staples

T.J. Volgare - Lead Vocals
David Staples - Rhythm Guitar
Simpson Eason - Drums
Steven DeConto - Bass
Michael DePue - Lead Guitar
Paula Hardy - Additional Vocals, Piano, Organ.

Produced, Tracked, and Mixed Live by Ryan Pickett at "Pickett's Gym" in Durham, N.C.

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St. Anthony and The Mystery Train Durham, North Carolina

A band of storytellers taking cues from the magical realism of Tom Waits, the free-associations of Bob Dylan, and the misfit spirituals of Johnny Cash. The stories inside the music are best described as a stream of Southern-Gothic consciousness, short pieces of theatre in which every musician, playing a combination of garage rock, blues, & country, is a "character." ... more

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