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Maybe my favorite song on this collection. Certainly the most different for me.
I was playing a duo gig with Jake Bradley a few years back at The Living Room in NYC right when a massive snow storm hit. I'm talking a foot of snow in 3 hours easy. Jake and i beat it out of town in time to make it south to jersey and hotel safety...But i gotta tell you: the images of the soft quiet streets, snow still cascading as we loaded our van, buildings, lamp posts enshrined in halogen-glow snow, the lovers laughing and walking arm in arm to whatever quarters they could make it to for a night of cozy warmth, a drink, or coffee & conversation have never left me.
All that's grand a beautiful about metro-humanity was given full appeal that evening. Very hallowed, very noble, those "Humans of New York." ;-)

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FOREVER FOR YOU words/music: bill mallonee
stumblin' in out of the rain...stealing all of your kisses
city blocks bathing in neon...thunder off in the distance

storm's hanging on hey, there's a bar on the corner i know
Clydesdale endlessly circle in a globe full of swirling snow
shakin' off the drops of the night in a tucked vinyl booth
a little gin please with a splash of vermouth

Chorus:
i came here for the skyline
and maybe a song or two
i maybe have come here for the skyline
but i'll stay forever for you

i was wondering...well just how brave was i?
talking a game...and shivering on the inside
taking off bandages....of recovery
holding you close...like a discovery

Chorus:
i came here for the skyline
when, now that's only partially true
i came here for the skyline
but i'll stay forever for you

Stumbling out into the cold stealing all your kisses
Salvation Army bells off in the distance
I came here for the skyline
and maybe a song or two
I came here for the skyline
but I'd stay forever for you
yes, your eyes became that skyline
and everything came true
I came here for the skyline
but I'll stay forever for you...

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from WHERE THE LOVE LIGHT GLEAMS ~ 2015 (14 original songs about Advent, Christmas & the Coming of Jesus), released December 18, 2015
Bill Mallonee: vocals, acoustic, electric & baritone guitars, electric pianos, bass, drums

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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