I'll make this a running post as I can decipher more lyrics before release. Either when the songs come out or by squinting very hard at the various notebook pages/album booklet.
First up: Last Man Standing (Partial)
Lights come up at the legion hall
pool cues go back up on the wall
you pack your guitar and disappear
with ? the ringing in the your ear!
a waitress cleans up the bar
you pack your amp into the car
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the mike/wife
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you wake up in the morning and find it
hard to believe somehow you are the last man standing
snakeskin ? sharkskin
custom heels on my black boots
Raimaker lyrics are very promising. This will probably sound angry, with loud guitars and drums?
'The house is on fire' lyric is interesting, that was a song title on the fake track listing circulating last week.
And there was me hoping "Rainmaker" was just going to be an E Street instrumental of this. Ah whey!
Rainmaker:
Parched Crops dying 'neath a dead sun
We've been praying but no good comes
The dog's howling, home's stripped bare
We've been worried, but now we're scared
People come for comfort or just to come
Taste the dark, sticky potion or hear the drums
Hands raised to Yahweh to bring the rain down
He comes crawlin' 'cross the dry fields like a dark shroud
Rainmaker, a little faith for hire
Rainmaker, the house is on fire
Rainmaker, take everything you have
Sometimes folks need to believe in something
so bad, so bad, so bad
They'll hire a rainmaker
Rainmaker says white's black and black's white
Says night's day and day's night
Says close your eyes and go to sleep now
I'm in a burnin' field unloadin' buckshot into
low clouds
Rainmaker, a little faith for hire
Rainmaker, the house is on fire
Rainmaker, take everything you have
Sometimes folks need to believe in something
so bad, so bad, so bad
They'll hire a rainmaker
Slow moving wagon drawing through a dry town
Painted rainbow, crescent moon and dark clouds
Brother patriot come forth and lay it down
Your blood brother for king and crown
for your Rainmaker
They come for the smile, the firm handshake
They come for the saw chance of a fair shake
Some come to make damn sure, my friend
This mean season's got nothin to do with them
They come 'cause they can't stand the pain
Of another long hot day of no rain
'Cause they don't care or understand
What it really takes for the sky to open up the land.
Rainmaker
a little faith for hire
Rainmaker, the house is on fire
Rainmaker, take everything you have
Sometimes folks need to believe in something
so bad, so bad, so bad
They'll hire a rainmaker
Rainmaker
Rainmaker
Rainmaker