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Monastery c Chuck LeMonds 2004

Take a break from this madness
Take some time alone
Take a train to the outskirts
Of some forgotten unknown
Where no one can remember you
Where no one really cares
What you’ve done and what you do
Who you love and what you choose

Going down to the monastery
Going down with you
Going down to the monastery
Going to pray the whole day through

Ain’t no cross on the front door
Ain’t no sign of the seven sons
Ain’t no way to bring you back
When you’re feeling so at one
Everything is sliding by
But you are standing still
When someone asks where did she go, I’ll just smile and say
She went down to the river to sit under some big shade tree.

Paint yourself in a corner
In shades of black and white
Everybody wants to tell you
How to live your life
Follow all the customs yeah
Memorize all the unwritten rules
But if you can’t see eye to eye
And your heart says no, you’ve got to leave some time alone.

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from Album​:​Pink Roshi (2006), released September 30, 2023
12) Monastery
Musicians:
Chuck LeMonds – guitar, vocals
Gottfried David Gfrerer – national guitar
Herfried Knapp– bass
Reinhardt Winkler –drums
Klaus Ambrosch – e-guitar

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Chuck LeMonds’ music is a kind of Country Soul gumbo of blues, folk, funk and country with poetic lyrics that call to be heard. In times like these, the music and songwriting of Chuck LeMonds has the effect of a soothing balsam for the soul, or that of a plow turning over fresh soil in a field waiting to be planted in spring. ... more

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