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Shoe Suede Blues

from Diamonds & Gold by Motherhood

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Go away dear friends I got troubles of my own
I can't heal you and I wouldn't try
But they clawed at my door 'til I crawled and I roared
I screamed 'the horror I'm finished I'm dying
'See my body is made up of terrible things
That are one by one leaving me bare
But I'd never blame them or ask you to shame them
I'm poison and full of despair'

Well my friends wouldn't leave me and they tried to deceive me
And it tickled my heart that they lied
So I kept them for counsel and they hung from my mantle
And I slipped out and borrowed their ride
I don't think they could tell I was ringing their bells
I was putting them on for a joke
They were surely surprised and wiping their eyes
When they wandered outside for a smoke

I put those rocks in my clothes
I took them on down the road
I planned on sinking like stones
I was only thinking of them
I was only taking their sins
I had to help them repent

Well I drove like the wind and God forgave my sins
'Cause He can and I thanked Him and cried
My friends surely cursed me and promised to burst me
And all grabbed their guns from inside
For we lived in a house with no speck of a doubt
Where the Lord was thanked daily for lives
We were safer as many more safer with semis
Rifles, revolvers and knives

So they came well prepared on the road that we shared
Though I sped up ahead going south
With a true disregard for my life or the car
Or the beer that I tipped to my mouth
Well I blew out the brakes see but the gates wouldn't take me
Though the saints would all swear that I tried
I screamed 'I will not go slowly or tired or holy
'But foolish and young and with pride'

I tripped and fell down the hall
Dragged by an angry Saint Paul
He wouldn't have it at all
He threw me back down to Earth
Said it was what I deserved
Oh how I moaned and I cursed

I lay in the ditch and my body did twitch
And my eyes were distorted and blurred
When my friends finally caught up I was sure that I'd be shot up
But they saw me and their minds were deterred
I begged them to save me I begged them 'don't grave me
'Don't leave me, I'll make it, I swear'
They talked to each other and I called them all brother
And they mumbled and pulled out their hair

See they feared for my life but remembered the strife
That I'd caused them an hour ago
So I told them 'desert me, it was myself who hurt me
'I'll make it, though I will make it slow'
As they shrunk in the darkness I could see that I'd been tarnished
And at my friends' next convenience I would die
So I mourned what I'd lost then I cut it from my thoughts
And I limped along the road until light

I couldn't go home and die
I had to leave for my pride
I left my family behind
I needed somewhere to sleep
I made it wicked and deep
Saint Paul have mercy on me

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from Diamonds & Gold, released June 14, 2013

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Motherhood is an avant-rock trio from Fredericton, NB, Canada.

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