PALE WHITE DOVE
Pale White Dove, Released by Velvet Blue Music, 07 April 2015.
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Track Listing:
1. White Night – Black Light
2. Never Gonna Be Young Again
3. Revolution Son Blues
4. I Love to Hate You
5. Ghost on Water
6. From the City of the Bride
7. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
8. When the Arrow Hits the Sparrow
9. No Human Voice
10. Ghost on Water – Red Skies
11. The Last Confederate Widow
Credits:
All songs written by Doug Burr, Woven Wings Publishing, ASCAP
Copyright 2015, all rights reserved
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Produced by Britton Beisenherz, Doug Burr, Dave Sims, Glen Farris Squibb
Engineered by Britton Beisenherz
Mixed by Britton Beisenherz at Ramble Creek Studio, Austin, TX
Mastered by Jim Wilson at Airshow Mastering, Boulder, CO
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Britton Beisenherz – Reed Organ, misc. Keys, Percussion, Guitars, String Arrangements
Doug Burr – Guitars, Harmonica, Vocals
Amanda Leggett – Harmony Vocals
Dave Sims – Drums, Guitars, Percussion, Harmony Vocal
Glenn Farris Squibb – Bass, Moog Synth, Piano, Rhodes, Organ, Banjo
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Cover art by Brandon Lesley
Photography by Jon Collins and Jason Upshaw
Photo Editing by Brandon Lesley
Rabbit pulled from hat by J. Cloud
Cat. # VBM 161
Lyrics:
White Night – Black Light
White Night – Black Light, where is the river
White Night – Black Light, you ain’t no Deliverer
Give me back, I want it back, so give me back all of my burdens
If we deserve peace how come the children are so worried
White Night – Black Light, come cracklin’ through the speakers
White Night – Black Light, callin’ all believers
Wake us up out of a dead sleep and drag up to your pulpit
Ah, you got some bad need to witch out some poor culprit
White Night – Black Light, oh Shotgun Jesus
By the bullets and the poison, oh yeah you gonna free us
White Night – Black Light, physician, heal yourself
And get your shaky hands off everybody else
White Night – Black Light, who you come to save
Leanin’ pale-face, empty-eyed, more every single day
White Night – Black Light, savior save yourself
But there’s acid in your veins and two boys in that well
refrain:
Oh White Night, my Black Light
Oh White Night, my Black Light
White Night – Black Light, so where is the river
White Night – Black Light, you ain’t no kind of Deliverer
Give me back, I want it back, so give me back all of my burdens
If we deserve peace how come the children are so worried
Oh White Night – Black Light, who you comin’ to save
White Night – Black Light, acid in your veins
Never Gonna Be Young Again
I’m never gonna be young again
When the war is over won’t you let me in
I never took you by the hand
I’d leave you on the beaches when the ships come in
I’m never gonna be young again
Got a lightnin bolt on my shoulder for for when the shit hits the fan
I look at your picture three times a day
Sometimes for love and sometimes for rage
Refrain:
I lay awake when the pill’s too slow
Honey, you can’t fight what you don’t know
I don’t want to come to this town no more
Everybody’s gonna ask why my legs are sore
I’m never gonna fall in love again
Honey, that stuff can get you paralyzed from both ends
If I look the same well, I don’t feel the same
Whatever you used to call me – that’s not my name
I’m never gonna be young again
When the war is over won’t you let me in
Tracer, Tracer up in the night, don’t leave me alone in the firefight
I’m never gonna be young again
When the war is over won’t you let me in
Don’t leave me standin on your porch
Never let another come to your door
I’m never gonna be young again
When the war is over won’t you let me in
I never took you by the hand
I’d leave you on the beaches when the ships come in
Revolution Son Blues
I fell on my own bayonet
Call me the very first Son of Connecticut
I could-a left it to my brothers, but my brothers were dead
I could-a left it to the others, but them Tories went red
Freezin’ and starvin’ – starvin’, freezin’ instead
We ain’t soldiers, just a bunch of hungry necks
We marched through Danbury where the fires had burned
Crossed Tom’s River ferry too starved to say a word
I walked for three days just to join to these ranks
I could handle a rifle ‘good as any yank
They call me Son of Thunder, Simon Thunder-Tongue
Said I’m young and foolish, but at least I’m young
Annie, oh Annie, do you miss me yet
Last night we got whiskey, but we got no bread
I’m a son of revolution don’t ask me again
You’ve heard it before – it’s the howlin, howlin wind
Don’t tell my family – they’ll think I’m dead
I just fell on my own bayonet
All you pretenders get away from my bed
I’ll be ridin’ out tonight on a pair of new legs
I’m gonna break through the Front, like a jack-rabbit I’ll run
I got a secret deep down, down the barrel of my gun
They call me Son of Thunder, Simon Thunder-Tongue
Said I’m young and foolish, but at least I’m young
I’m a son of revolution don’t ask me my name
You’ve heard it before – it’s the comin’, comin’ rain
I fell on my own bayonet
Call me the very first Son of Connecticut
I could-a left it to my brothers, but my brothers were dead
I could-a left it to the others, but them Tories went red
I Love to Hate You
When you’re playing the Soldier’s Joy you play it a little faster
Upon the whirlwind I see natural disaster
Ever heard the sound of the blues runnin’ backwards
Them wedding bells ain’t ringers – they’re crashers
Chorus:
I love to hate you, I love to hate you
In the mornin’, in the mornin’, in the mornin’ blue
(Every evenin’, every evenin’, every evenin’ new)
(I’m gonna look back on the world we knew)
I love to hate you
There are no headlights out on this highway
No lightnin’ comin’ from the mountain face
So I strolled down beneath the Beautiful Gate
There was a fountain – it was filled with snakes
Beware the white boy come singin’ black words
Son of a son of an old Back-Masker
You ever heard the sound of the blues runnin’ backwards
All washed in blood and out in the pasture
Ghost On Water
I came up to the Jordan
It was cold and deep and wide
The Accuser of my blood howlin’ from behind
Ghost on Water, shimmering and white
Ghost on Water, walk upon the waves tonight
I tumbled back to Earth
All bloody gown and broken teeth
God, I spread my legs so wide in the middle of the street
The water’s risin’ down in Orleans
I am the oldest harlot, and I can’t get up off my knees
I ‘been three cold, dark nights
Descending in an angry deep
The whisperin’ voices wrapped like shackles ’round my feet
Ghost on Water, pull me up above the wave
Ghost on Water, I’m too heavy to save
When I first beheld the Form
Oh, my eyes all drunk in dread
Through a darkness from inside the storm, the waves they just laid down instead
Ghost on Water, was it something You said
Ghost on Water, say my name when I’m dead
From the City of the Bride
I heard the wedding vows from the City of the Bride
The planes were flying low till they covered the skies
You could hear the turbines moanin’, the drone and the scream
All the colors that I love through the tops of the trees
There’s a late snow fallin’ hard on the Atlantic tonight
I heard the wedding vows from the City of the Bride
My uncle’s blood is strong, and his blood is mine
Now have you heard from William, with two blackened and downcast eyes
We could go on up together, this Resistance is on the move
Only keep your voices low, and brush the snow off your shoes
And if we teach all the kids to use the Old Name when they write
I heard the wedding vows from the City of the Bride
Bridge:
Never a bridesmaid, always a bride
I ‘been hearin bells all my life
I wanna dress all in white
Never a bridesmaid – always a bride
And when you wake from a thousand dreams through a thousand long nights
When the Blood-Letter bleeds and the last bullet flies
And the honeysuckle starts to bloom, all wrapped around the gates
The ones we flung out in the wind down by the lakes
There’s a whisper and a storm on the Atlantic tonight
I heard the wedding vows from the City of the Bride
I See Satan Fall Like Lightining
I seen your Accuser rollin’ downtown
Holdin’ every hand in the secret gown
Never was a bridesmaid, always a bride
I seen your Accuser got a mouth open wide
I see Satan fall like lightnin’
Got the violence in the veil and the veil in the violence
Old Stone-Thrower, the new seed sower
Iridescent jacket, black-lung, black-lung
First name on his lips and your last name on his tongue
I heard your last name – his native tongue
A new phonetic cascadin’ kinetic in the street
Come a pack of wild dogs up from the sea
Oh, my little refugee, ain’t never gonna find it
Got the violence in the veil and the veil in the violence
There’s a creek under the river, there’s a code in the stain
Your Accuser was just here and on his tongue was your name
Now comes the slow rumblin’, it’s startin’ to rain
Tell us where’s your kid brother – gone missin’ in the City of Cain
There’s a Power in the air – got the tongues all combinin’
There’s a Power in the air – got the veil and got the violence
There’s a Power in the air – see the sky all blindin’
And I see Satan fall like lightnin’
Ah, go and tell John the Baptist ’bout all of these
How the deaf can hear, the lame can walk, and the blind man sees
And the dead are raised, and the dead are raised,
And the poor – they got the Good News, but you’re still in chains
Now here she come, here she come, here she come, here she come
Here comes Salome
So when the mountain is smokin’, and the mountain is smokin’,
And the mountain is smokin’, and the mountain is smokin’,
And the mountain is smokin’, and the the Bondage keep fightin’
I see Satan fall like Lightnin’, I see Satan fall like lightnin’
See the Prince of the Sky – Naw, the sky all blindin’
I see Satan fall like Lightnin’
There’s a Power in the air – got the tongues all combinin’
There’s a Power in the air – got the tongues all combinin’
There’s a Power in the air – got the tongues all combinin’
Oh my little refugee, ain’t never gonna find it
Got the violence in the veil and the veil in the violence
When the Arrow Hits the Sparrow
When the Arrow hits the Sparrow there’s something in the water in the fight
When it hits the ground the poison run into the water tonight
All the boys in the city, they can’t keep a job to save their life
The foldin’ of the hands and the winkin’ of the eyes, alright
When the Arrow hits the Sparrow there’s something in the water in the fight
When it hits the ground the poison gonna run into the water tonight
All the boys in the city, they can’t keep their eyes off of my wife
The foldin’ of the hands and the winkin’ of the eyes, alright
Out by the river, too cold to quiver, somethin’ always skinned alive
They’re speakin’ in tongues, the kids ain’t young
All they ever got is time
See ’em all in stitches, slope-mouthed sons of bitches
Swollen-holy in their prime
The city got walls, whisperin’ halls, foldin’ hands and winkin’ eyes
When the Arrow hits the Sparrow there’s something in the water in the fight
When it hits the ground the poison gonna run into the water supply
All the boys inside the city gonna lay awake all night
With the foldin’ of the hands, they got the foldin’ of the hands, and the winkin’ of the eyes, the winkin’ of the eyes
Bridge:
I just wanna keep my head down, I just wanna keep my head down
I just wanna keep my head down
This ain’t the Blues, no they’re just born this way
Drenched in rouge, covered in the black light faders
See ’em all in stitches, slope-mouthed sons of bitches, wait until they kill the lights
There’s a Power in the air, a Power in the air
The Seers and the Keepers alright, alright, alright …
When the Arrow hits the Sparrow there’s something in the water in the fight
When it hits the ground the poison gonna run into the water tonight
All the boys inside the city, they can’t keep a job to save their life
This city got walls, whisperin’ halls, foldins hands and winkin’ eyes
No Human Voice
My name is James Cameron, I fell up from the sea (I dreamed I was fallin’ up from the sea)
Tangled in the branches of an old, old tree
The voice of my mother callin’
Where have you been, my sweet
And it was no human voice
I threw down the pistol for I had seen the face
I came to my senses for I had known the name
And the other voices goading as I ran from that place
And theirs was no human voice
The sheriff showed up at my door and took me back to town
To put me in a cell beside the other two they found
On the second night a crowd came thunderin’ aloud
In what was no human voice
They chanted my name and the jailer stood aside
They pulled me ‘cross the floor, and shoved me on outside
And on up to the hilltop where the other two boys died
There was a crowd of young and old, but not one merciful eye
And all at once they parted like a great sea
There was a voice from the back, and a face that I can’t see
Let this boy go – he’s done nothin’ wrong, lay not one hand on his sleeve
It was no human voice
And I stepped out slowly between that sordid throng
Comin’ not a word – soundin’ like a song
While it just kept goin’, I just walked on
A song with no human voice
My name is James Cameron, I fell up from the sea
I was tangled in the branches of the oldest tree
And the voice of my Lord callin’
Come down and sup with me
It was no human voice
It was no human voice
Ghost On Water – Red Skies
I came up to the Jordan
Winds were all a-frenzy and the sky was red
All the other ghosts drowned my mind in fear till the waves stood still instead
Ghost on Water – was it somethin’ You said
Ghost on Water – won’t You say my name when I’m dead
I tumbled back down to Earth
With my bloody gown and my broken teeth
I kept spreadin’ my legs so wide in the middle of the street
And the water’s risin’ way down in Orleans
I’m the oldest workin’ harlot and I can’t get up off of my knees
I came upon the Jordan
And it was cold, and it was deep and wide
The Demander of My Blood howlin’ from all sides
Ghost on Water, shimmering and white
Ghost on Water – won’t You walk upon the waves tonight
In the black void, formless
You hoverin’ o’er the Deep
Ain’t no man, no other ghost gonna know the Secret that You keep
And the waters risin’ – it’s so dark I can’t see
Ghost on Water – won’t You plunge me underneath
The Last Confederate Widow
If I give you the key, but the secret is ugly
Won’t you stand beside me, won’t you sing up above me
The house down the street, well, the kids are so lovely
Give us one more battle hymn
Sing me the name of the Last Confederate Widow
The windows are open, the daughters are leanin’
Roll through the stop lights in a long black Lincoln
The Secret South all down in the mouth, and caught in her throat
In the place that you love the most
One foot on the sea, swollen by rivers
Christmastime, New Orleans, nothin’ can deliver
And the woods became streets, nothin’ left here outlives her
And the Second Line marchin’ in
Sing me the name of the Last Confederate Widow
The windows are open, all the daughters are blinkin’
Hands up on the front porches, long black Lincolns
The Secret South all down in the mouth, and caught in her throat
In the place that you love the most
Take a walk through the trees of this bright, empty forest
Got their limbs all outstretched like they simply adore us
It was here where we wed, drunk on a chorus, singin’ baby now doesn’t time win
Over and over again, and the Second Line marchin’ in
Oh, we got one more battle hymn
Sing me the name of the Last Confederate Widow
The windows are open, all the daughters are leanin’
The windin’ white road, and the long black Lincoln
The Secret South all down in the mouth, and caught in her throat
In the place that you love the most
