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The lights have gone out
have no fear
there’s nothing you can do about it.
Seen it before
many times, many places
standing at the edge of a grave.

Sleeping on the couch
at your fathers place
thoughts run asunder like the roaches in the dark.
They never go away
like some hurts that you have carried
and now you’re giving in to the rivers call.

I don’t know anymore than you
how to smile when there’s nothing to smile about
when you got no money, they can skin you alive
and hang you on the roadside to dry
I don’t know anymore than you
how to take back what’s already done and through
when things fall apart and just won’t go as planned
and if fate was like clay that you could pound with your hands
I still wouldn’t know anymore than you

Standing at night
on the banks of the river
you wouldn’t want to be in my skin.
Waiting, as if
a reason to stay
will come floating down around the bend.

Cry out to those
who have passed before you
who are waiting for you, to come home
Just weary and worn
standing this night
on the shore, watching the river flow by.

I don’t know anymore than you
how some sleep in houses and some on skid row
everyone else has a plan, you make it up as you go
how could anyone not love you, how could anyone not love you
I don’t know anymore than you
how to take a fall and not lose your grace
how to spend all the money at one time and place
and if fate were like clay that you could pound with your hands
I still wouldn’t know anymore than you.

credits

from Album: The Rivers Call (2013), released September 1, 2013
Chuck LeMonds – acoustic guitar, vocals
Arkadiy Yushin – electric telecaster lap guitar, percussion programming
Peter Herbert – upright bass

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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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