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Rogues & Blushing Virgins

by Christian DeArmond & Helena Berlin

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Dive 03:19
Lillian Sloane she walks alone Clothed in her best Sunday best Adorned does she go in her jewels of no worth To surrender a spirit aggrieved and oppressed the ravens they cry the ravens they croon Singing canticles high in the trees Swear to me now You’ll devour my heart As you level those blazing eyes at me She sings down and down and down I go Down to deliverance for me Down and down and down I go To the eye of the raging sea How he plundered and thieved and tore out her heart He revealed to her all of his splendor now on the Gallows Bridge she stands Overcome by the will that compelled her Lillian Sloane you’ll dive alone In the eye of the raging sea The ravens will cry and devour your heart And malign the blood of your breed She sings down and down and down I go Down to deliverance for me Down and down and down I go To the eye of the raging sea
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Dark Day, Darling saw her weaving jewels in her hair I loved her the moment she glowered at me Followed her down Where the ravens abound I said to her Lillian tell me Is this your dark day darling Is this your end oh beautiful girl Is there no reason or rhyme In your tangled mind Or your soul Saw her drawing blood from the ground she buried her misery Down and down Down did she tumble My beautiful girl I cried to her Lillian tell me Is this your dark day darling Is this your end oh beautiful girl Is there no reason or rhyme In your tangled mind Or your soul Oh I loved her Like a truly sorrowing lover And I followed her Down and down to the river Oh I cried to her You’ve got no reason or rhyme at all Oh she cried to me All the better to hasten the fall Is this your dark day darling Is this your end oh beautiful girl Is there no reason or rhyme In your tangled mind Or your soul
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I heard a story you might know Steeped in a libertine kind of glow Something about a preacher man Carving a serpentine command Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Something about the preacher man Sweeping his sanctimonious hand Over the grief stricken eyes of the fold Over the grasping ill-fated souls Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Cunning and sly was he, they say Charmed all the virgins under his sway How he loved the way the men Condescended to his command Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills All of those deadly, deadly sins Spilling without and brimming within And how we paled at the sound of his name For all his misery and scandal and shame Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Oh what iniquity coursed through his veins Ruined the sacred and the profane Nothing endures in the Gallows now Nothing will thrive in the bitter ground Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills Over the Jericho River, the ditch And the Gallows Hills

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Three songs about swindlers, supplicants, and the bad blood between them.
It's troubled folklore...Americana in a foul mood.

"a dark musical canvas... I’ve had some dark days man, and if you have too, you’ll definitely dig this album.

-Angie Radczenko, Bucketlist Music Reviews

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released October 19, 2015

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Sounds like Joe Strummer and Nick Cave in a knife fight at Johnny Cash's house.

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