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HIGH​~​BEAM

from SLOW TRAUMA by Bill Mallonee (March/2016)

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High~Beam words & music: bill mallonee

If ya' care to listen, ah but even if you don't
I got over needing you a long time ago
I took great pains to know you & I gave you all my best
I was living to make you smile. I was dying to impress

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But, all this gettin' born...all these rose & thorns and the confusing parts
Well, I cobbled a life together with them just to watch it fall a part

Well, i took it to the road; these skeleton dreams
Wrapped 'em in an old suit, railroads & high~beams
My pen? It never went dry; This guitar could always woo
Till my soul was the color of box car rust & my heart was big sky blue

Whatever is heavy as hell is what you shouldn't carry
I wrote my prayers & S.O.S. on the bar stationary
From where i stumbled last night; staggerin' right back to the start
What you learn comes the hard way; and softly breaks your heart

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from SLOW TRAUMA, released March 15, 2016

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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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