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Red Swan in Palmetto

by RF Shannon

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1.
Palmetto 03:16
You say you wanna play roshambo You bring the shovel, I’ll dig the hole You say you wanna play dead instead, You bring the wine, I’ll break the bread You say you wanna play roshambo, Meet me by the creek in palmetto
2.
Abalone 05:17
She’s walking down wind from the magic Stalking wild cats through an alley of silhouettes A blue tattoo of a shape that goes forever, She circles round the room with a shell of abalone She’s digging up the roots of my limit And scattering the seeds to the wind, A cigarette hangs low from her lips, She can make it last forever, She circles round the room with a shell of abalone
3.
I was passing through the bluebonnets, With teenage rattlesnakes all around me Everybody drunk on the sunshine, With a desperate need to be nowhere at all I felt a rusted band of gold Like a tourniquet wrapped around my soul, Caught in the spirit of the times I was on my way to paradise, But I’m staying right here, right here with you I’m out to buy some wind from John Domingo, He pulls it from the sky so high and strange “The moon is in the man” he always told me, So dust it off, that midnight jewelry I felt a rusted band of gold Like a tourniquet wrapped around my soul, Caught in the spirit of the times I was on my way to paradise, But I’m going all in, all in for you
4.
Cedar perfume, hangs in the room Cedar perfume, I feel like I do I think I’ll go for a ride With a disembodied spirit in the night Shadow and shade, What’s left of my name I’m stoking the embers Of all that remains, I couldn’t give you what you need, It’s a pointless divination to believe… But our love is evergreen Yeah, our love is evergreen Because our love is evergreen Yeah, our love is evergreen Trouble in mind, All of the time You can look through the window But you can’t see inside I am stag with seven tines, And I’m caught between the clearing and the blind And I’m leaving LA I’m on my way, I’m the bloom of an Iris Crying for rain, I burn through the years like gasoline, But I won’t mistake the ashes for the trees Because our love is evergreen
5.
Well its summertime and I think I might be losing my mind And the thunderstorms roll in but they never begin, oh I swear That the endless sun burns down a door in my head, still, I know this Is the life that I’ve always wanted So I fill the air with smoke And we’ll go out tonight and we will Dance out in the street All, all of my friends have died From the inside out to the beauty that surrounds them And the silence that reminds us to get along, Well I aint been gettin along to well But soon we’ll all come to understand that one day will be Left undone and there’s nothing we can do but get along So lets go out tonight and we will Dance out in the street It never rains, never rains in July Why does it never rain in July And why does a lie feel just like the truth when you tell it just right Looks like rain, Looks like rain, Looks like rain.
6.
I met you when I was out of my mind, Faking the Virginia Reel I should’ve seen we were flying blind That midnight oil burning at my heels Then walked in good Mother Mary Wearing her dancing boots Sooner or later you’ll find out Who you are, who you ain’t, and which is true You’ll find out which is true I’m mending hats that my father wore Changing my chambray blood I hung my heart on a Celtic Cross High upon a neon palm Then Walked in good Mother Mary Wearing her dancing boots Sooner or later you’ll find out She’s bound to get the best of you She’ll get the best of you (repeat) It gets the best of you (repeat)
7.
Salt dime in my left boot, jack vine in my hand And I spin like a wheel in a wheel Just to see if I can On a Carolina mountain, in a Carolina spring I was falling through the water, feeling everything In some old casino, out in the wild I was betting on a full moon every night Closer to the bottom Than I am to the ledge And it cuts like a blade to the bone When the light has an edge Salt dime in my left boot, jack vine in my hand And I spin like a wheel in a wheel You know I can In some old casino, out in the wild I was betting on a full moon every night
8.
So Down Low 04:33
So long Magnolia, so long Navidad Leaving the crossroads, Tried to cut a deal, but I broke the whole thing off Just four ways to get lost Thinking in cursive, riding in a Chevrolet I am returning I am the returning, I am the returning maze I am the holiday And I’m so down low, honey, So down low Been so down low, honey, So down low But I’m coming round, I’m coming round, I’m coming round to you I’m coming round, I’m coming round always to you I am the Shepard Sleeping through a thunderstorm Past lives in the weather Weeping through the willow, weeping through the willow tree So cover me up in green I’m so down low, honey, So down low Been so down low, honey, So down low But I’m coming round, I’m coming round, I’m coming round to you I’m coming round, I’m coming round always to you
9.
I’ve got some time to kill But you know I’ve never been the killing kind I take it in stride, although my mind Is stray like a roan on a muddy bank Sometimes it feels a lot like hell, I loved you but I lost myself Break off a little peace of mind Take shelter in the falling sky Heathen Nights Everybody’s killing time Heathen Nights A sickle in the western sky… Heathen Nights I’m leaning on a mood I’m light as a feather with an alibi This halo ain’t cheap, But the wings came free It’s getting even harder not to sell your soul Man, you know it feels like hell I loved you but I lost myself Break off a little peace of mind, Take shelter in the falling sky Heathen Nights, Everybody’s killing time Heathen Nights, A sickle in the western sky A sickle in the western sky… Heathen Nights

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released May 26, 2023

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