Shadow and a threat

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Shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind, when those dark clouds comes a'rollin I'll leave it all behind.
I use to be here sometime, now I stays here all the time, when I see that sun a'settin I'll leave this awfull town
And I see my train a comin', I bite my time,
It's been raining all week, but still so dry
I planted all these seeds, yet they all seemed to die
Taxman is coming, but I keep on running, I keep on running
Turn yourself in son, No i keep on running and keep on running
Cos' there's nothing but an open road for me now,
Paved in everything I stole as a child, oh as a child!

Hundred thread count sheets and a Cadillac arrives,
She's got diamonds to her knees and hemlock in her eyes
Used to play here sometimes, but now I stays here all the time,
Tag a burning bride, it's the genius of the crowd.
But I'm jealous of the peasant, I curse my tide,
Resenting all these presents, burn them to the ground!
You know I planned my escape, I'm leaving tonight!

Shadow And A Threat

Devil done gone is a blues song that Sandy Little and Louw Cronje wrote for their band Wolfgang Marrow.It was inspired by delta blues and old Gospel songs.It  speaks of the utter detachment a man feels when he is chewed up by his government, his women and his beliefs...When one looses the path and finds that not even the devil cares...

Devil done gone

Becky says she’s sorry,
but she said it with a smile
Said I want my ring back,
but she pawned it for a dime

Black Lung said don’t worry,
but he said it with a growl
Said I want my life back,
but he’s already in me now

So I went down to the coal fields,
traded silver for black lung,
No one is born equal
under the cold African sun

Is you hungry? Is you poor?
Is you the man we’re praying for?
We heard of you, when we were small
Black Lung knows when we is sore,
condones revenge and keeping score

Stone Age broke the wheel, guns germs and steel
The Bronze Age, sugar pills, hallelujah

Fire pool democracy, my heritage pornography,
nose cartilage, ticks and fleas, hallelujah

Privilege, supremacy, my bullshit bad legacy
to blame me is to be free, hallelujah

Dearly beloved, were you sent from above?
I was made from snake tooth and unrequited love
Here hold my ghost, here hold my beer,
no one is born equal, no one is born free

Is you hungry? Is you poor?
Is you the man we’re praying for?
We heard of you when we were small
Black Lung knows when we is sore,
condones revenge and keeping score

Violent geography, SABC,
our bastard biology, hallelujah
Darling hypocrisy this bullshit is killing me,
redemption on ETV, hallelujah
Settlers telepathy, our history sold separately,
to blame it is to be free, hallelujah,
blame me is to be free, hallelujah

Wolfgang Marrow

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