Sean Garvey

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California Parable

He’s tried witching for water and praying for rain
Hoping rivers flood prison valley again
Blood stained shirt and an empty bottle of gin
His mother’s lover should of seen it comin’

Chorus:
California Parable
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare

There’s two stations on the FM dial that come in way out here
It’s all just white noise when your minds full of fear
The suns been up for hours on the San Joaquin
He would have been picking cotton ‘til his nose bleeds

California Parable
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare

White washed motel off Highway 1
Neon Jesus shining down like the barrel of a gun
You can rub that rosary right down to the twine
If it’s salvation that you want your on the wrong side of the line

California Parable
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare
California parable
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare
The fault lines run deeper than the soil can bare

Youngblood

Youngblood
Youngblood
Shooting holes in the night
This city has bled us white
This city has bled us white
Juke box days and the tracks keep changing
And all we’ve got is just a train ride even
You can’t walk these streets
In your mind alone

We’re gonna shake and ache all night
We’re gonna shake and ache all night
We’re gonna shake and ache all night
All night long

Youngblood
Youngblood

If wishful stars turn to rust
It will be the death of us
It will be the death of us
Switch blades or paper cuts
Keep the hurt and your chin tucked
No more drug store remedies
Salvation is what my soul needs

We’re gonna shake and ache all night
We’re gonna shake and ache all night
We’re gonna shake and ache all night
All night long

Youngblood
Youngblood
If they drain the Hudson
Years of regret would appear
I’d want to be far far far from here

Small Town Graffiti

Well you called this place home for twenty years and change
The harder that you try the more it stays the same
Your friends bring you down, keep you out all night
The good girls ran at the first sign of light

Well it’s small town graffiti that’s covering your walls
Light up a smoke watch another night fall
You’ve been saving up, sharpening your knives
At a break in the rain your gonna cut these ties

Working odd jobs in the fields around town
Pegged up to no good you’ve just been holding your ground
You drive down Main St. cross motel drive
Catching out-of-state plates in the corners of your eyes

Well it’s small town graffiti that’s covering your walls
Light up a smoke watch another night fall
You’ve been saving up, sharpening your knives
At a break in the rain your gonna cut these ties

Well your town took a turn, once a smooth bed of bloom
The mom and pops have closed, just cleared for more room
The big stores are a comin’ and there kicking up the dust
There’s a whole lot of talk saying progress is a must.

Well it’s small town graffiti that’s covering your walls
Light up a smoke watch another night fall
You’ve been saving up, sharpening your knives
At a break in the rain your gonna cut these ties
You’ve been saving up, sharpening your knives
At a break in the rain your gonna cut these ties

New Bars

All these new bars sure are bright
And all these new bars sure are cold
And that’s the house that couldn’t keep us in
And that’s the street where Susana lost control

So come on now boys I think that were lost
So come on now boys I think that were lost
I think were lost in our hometown
I think were lost in our hometown
I think were lost in our hometown

I had a girl, whisky in her hands
She had a fire that could burn up this land
She’s in the corner with some other man
This dirty old town and these bad bad lands

So come on now boys I think that were lost
So come on now boys I think that were lost
I think were lost in our hometown
I think were lost in our hometown
I think were lost in our hometown

Rows of houses on old farm land
Whatever happened to working with your hands
We’d drive up, catch the sun go down
Cheap red wine while the dark comes around

So come on now boys I think that were lost
So come on now boys I think that were lost
I think were lost in our hometown
I think were lost in our hometown
I think were lost in our hometown

Layback Woman

All kinds of fault lines in the world outside
Can we stay in and hide
Your secrets are safe with me
Bar the door and then we’re free

I’ll give you everything
I’ll give you everything
I’ll give you everything
you want

Layback Woman layback down
Layback Woman layback down
Layback Woman layback down
Layback Woman layback down

Out on the street the sirens cry
And everyone just walks on by
Here with you our hearts get heard
No needs to say a single word
Bourban water and the blackest tea
We can dance to all our old LPs

I’ll give you everything
I’ll give you everything
I’ll give you everything
you want
You’ll never have to leave
You’ll never have to leave
You’ll never have to leave

Layback Woman layback down
Layback Woman layback down
Layback Woman layback down
Layback Woman layback down

Howl

I hear the howl all night and day
It runs through my mind like an old freight train
I feel the howl on my skin
Like an old crow field just burning in the wind
Like an old crow field just burning in the wind

Coast to Coast I’ve been riding with the ghost
Rest my bones like a thief in the throes
Moonlight in the orchird I’m dying on the vine
Mama said hold it tight this dark heart of mine
Mama said hold it tight this dark heart of mine

Black birds in a blue sky flying one by one
Twenty years of drought I’m a farmers son
Twenty years of drought I’m a farmers son
Twenty years of drought what’s done is done

I hear the howl all night and day
It runs through my mind like an old freight train
I feel the howl on my skin
Like an old crow field just burning in the wind
Like an old crow field just burning in the wind

Black birds in a blue sky flying one by one
Twenty years of drought I’m a farmers son
Twenty years of drought I’m a farmers son
Twenty years of drought what’s done is done

Where my girl’s from

Where my girl’s from the winds don’t ever change
They blow strait out and push away the pain
Where my girl’s from her pictures fill the rooms
It’s the sweet sense of seeing the stars at noon

Wherever she may go it’s in her heart
Wherever I may go she’s in mine

Where my girl’s from there is no depression
Hard times are just hard lessons learned
Where my girl’s from twilights slow to leave
It breaks the back of the lonesome sea

Wherever she may go it’s in her heart
Wherever I may go she’s in mine

Wherever she may go
Wherever she may go
Right down the San Joaquin
Wherever she may go
Wherever she may go
Strait home to the borderline
You could hold me right here

Noyo Harbor

I was baptized by the sea and cigarettes
Never coughed once or lost my ship
Rusted car resting on the oceans docks
Glove box of bills and an old broken watch

Roll on Lord won’t you let me roll on
Darling well I’m doing the best I can
You know these diesels don’t run so pretty
You know these diesels and they don’t run so pretty

Heart broke so much it no longer beats
Needs a five foot swell on the open seas
Keeps the blood a flowing and the gas tank full
My love don’t know how the Ocean can pull

Roll on Lord won’t you let me roll on
Darling well I’m doing the best I can
You know these diesels don’t run so pretty
You know these diesels and they don’t run so pretty

Old No. 7 in my coffee mug
Noyo up ahead like a jewel just snug
Northern winds a whippin’ right through my soul
15 grand on ice and it don’t feel so damn cold

Roll on Lord won’t you let me roll on
Darling well I’m doing the best I can
You know these diesels don’t run so pretty
You know these diesels and they don’t run so pretty

Hard way to go

He picked his strings like Mississippi
Steady as ‘ol John Hurt
Sang sweet summer corn
Left his husks right in the dirt
The preacher warned and his mother scorned
How a young man spends his time
Heard the voice of the Lord in the seventh chord
And followed it down the line

Hey now sugar baby
Hey now sugar baby
It’s a hard way
Hard way to go

Tried real hard working dawn to dusk never made enough
The whistle blew and he just knew he had to hit that stuff
The checks stopped a comin’ his family was in the cold
Held his Silvertone and dreamed of Rock and Roll

Hey now sugar baby
Hey now sugar baby
Hey now sugar baby
It’s a hard way
Hard way to go

Cut a deal with the cops on Beal to get up and move along
40 bucks on a North bound bus tried to find a new home
Shot in the side the night he died youngblood watched him bleed
He wouldn’t surrender his last dollar to a friend in need

Hey now sugar baby
Hey now sugar baby
Hey now sugar baby
Hey now sugar babe
It’s a hard way
Hard way to go

Chasing a ghost

A hard Spring rain and the rivers rose
And the blossoms washed out to sea
We were fevered fish swimming too close to shore
Knew the dangers but we both wanted more

I want so bad to be good and treat you as I should
But it’s hard, but it’s hard, but it’s hard
I want so bad to be good and hold it all close
But I get this feeling we’re just chasing a ghost

These days aren’t for dreaming, just the status quo
So we locked ‘em in an old quite drawer
I bought a suit and she bought a dress
And we tried to make sense of this mess
When the days were done I was too tired to sing
And her feet hurt too much to dance

I want so bad to be good and treat you as I should
But it’s hard, but it’s hard, but it’s hard
I want so bad to be good and hold it all close
But I get this feeling we’re just chasing a ghost

The diner on the corner just off Van Ness
Black coffee and last cigarettes
Our minds would race with mornings first light
Oh that was such a long time ago

Would you dance if I played you a song
And forget all the blossoms are gone?
Would you dance if I played you a song
And forget all the blossoms are gone?