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Twistin' in the Wind

from Slave (Full CD) by Dave Boylan

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I've seen you cold, I've seen you out in cotton dresses
you like the big crowds, cold and faceless
but there's still bruises on your shins
and it still feels warm enough to do hand-stands on your fences
and if I can be that child one last time
maybe you'll learn to laugh again

I'll be your whipping boy, starve for your attention
I'll drink that rusty rain, and take one more on the chin
but I won't watch you
twistin' in the wind

I've heard tales that they still come,
they bring you gifts and you dismiss them
and I'm guessing you've found nothing there
to fill your songs up in the end
but the ones you wrote me once sent tremors through my senses
but I guess it's all those dirty words, that just lost me in the end.

and I'll be your whipping boy
hand out your addictions
yeah and we can roll around,
come on baby, take some on the chin
I use to love to watch you
twistin' in the wind

just play those three chords through next week
and I swear I'll listen
it's all about those echos and crescendos
and your jokes that no one gets
and the odds are pretty good
that I'll die before i kiss you
and there's little chance they'll ever find my hands
buried deep beneath your dress

but I'll watch your little boys,
you know they're starved for your attention
and I'll drink that rusty rain,
hope it knocks me out again
'cuz I just can't stand to watch you
twistin' in the wind

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from Slave (Full CD), released February 15, 2013
Written by Dave Boylan. Engineered and Produced by Steve Devita

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Dave Boylan Boulder, Colorado

Thanks for visiting us online. Managing songs is like herding cats...old revisions, new revisions, added a solo here, a backing vocal there, blah blah blah. Hoping to update this as we finish the songs...always a few in progress. Look for some country'ish stuff over the next few months. Yee-Haw.
Thanks.
DB

(DBB photos courtesy Gary Kirchner)
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