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Twilight In the Shadowlands

from Tales From PA 6 by Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander

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Twilight In the Shadowlands

We’d heard about old Sullivan….my baby and me
Marching up the highway…..being all that he could be
Trying to make a nation from a valley of tears
Of my father’s father’s father, and his father’s ‘cross the years

Provisions as the crow flies….all put to the flame
The white man and the hand of god wiping out our name
Nothing red allowed to live ‘cept the blood rolling down
These wretched endless mountains...under a thorny crown

Clips on the floor boards….with Johnnie Walker Black
One to leave a legacy...and one to walk it back
Magazines left behind….like rice on a wedding ground
We’d make love along the river bed….and never make a sound

The short wave radio...and Duracell by the score
And 100 dollar bills….from the fresh jacked general store
It’s easier than you think my friend...when you’re cold to the touch
And the scraps they left behind for you….don’t amount to much

Twilight in the Shadowlands
Loose dirt through closed hands
Ain’t gonna make you understand
I’m gonna go out like a man

Headlights bearing down on us through the Pennsylvania trees
Megaphone blaring….got my hands between your knees
If they wanted me alive they shoulda seen up close and slow
The fear in that old man’s eyes….before I let him go
The heart is what you took...the heart is what I gave
Just bury us together….in my Daddy’s grave

Twilight in the Shadowlands
Loose dirt through closed hands
Ain’t gonna make you understand
I’m gonna go out like a man

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from Tales From PA 6, released June 21, 2018

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"One of the most gifted songwriters to emerge at the turn of the century"
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