Cover Our Faces With Soot and Dreams

Here are a few songs from the latest record of Red Clay River (as of 4/2010), “Cover Our Faces With Soot and Dreams”.

“Ain’t No Blues“
Chorus: You gotta outdance the devil with me. You gotta outdance the devil with me, lo’, come the midnight hour. You gotta outdance the devil with me.
Heave an old trashcan on the floor. Drag your broken leg through the fire. You gotta spit like a curse and drop to your knees, cause there ain’t nothing here for free.
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Cover your eye with an old felt patch, touch your elbow to your knee. If they see you, they’ll believe you. You got ‘em falling out of them trees.
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“Fall Like the Devil“
I got angels beside me and devils within. How do you learn to change, when you can’t ever begin. As I walk down to the river, I’m throwing rocks at the clouds. Thinking about leavin, and I’m thinkin about doubt.
Chorus: And I fall like the devil and get trapped down below. Don’t question the reasons why you always go.
Leave me laying by this old bridge, with sand in my eyes. I got no need for nothing, it’s all in my mind. I don’t believe in religion. I don’t believe in sin. There ain’t much I do know that ain’t fire and wind.
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“Hold On“
Meet me by the old burned out church. You know the one they never built around cause of that old sycamore bunch. We’ll carve our names with the stars. And cover our faces with soot and dreams. Don’t worry I gave away everything we owned. It’s all bundled on a matchstick I stole. And sing, ” La da da, la da da di da da da….”
Chorus:  Just hold, hold on my sweet Marie. Just hold, hold on to me.
We’ll sleep where the river turns slow. Drink in the night, and we’ll dance with the crows. They say. ‘home is where you lay your head’. If I was home that’s what I would’ve said. Hold on tight, I’m breathin’ diesel fuel. Ball the jack, I’ll lay those mountains flat. Lasso the moon, and I’ll ride the Mississippi. Kill the lantern, just hold on to me.
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“Land mine“
You are my landmine.