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| author | St33v <github@f3rr3t.com> | 2026-01-29 15:10:51 +1100 |
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| committer | St33v <github@f3rr3t.com> | 2026-01-29 15:10:51 +1100 |
| commit | b473a639880b05c2cfda030979a4abc4bf7f2e29 (patch) | |
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| parent | fa1555b07318f6ec567e13430ed004f9840a50ee (diff) | |
flatten artists, i.e. remove un-needed st33vRecords/ dir
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diff --git a/eli/message/slowtrain/lyrics-SlowTrain.txt b/eli/message/slowtrain/lyrics-SlowTrain.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01bc19f --- /dev/null +++ b/eli/message/slowtrain/lyrics-SlowTrain.txt @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +[VERSE 1]
+I got on at Blood on the Tracks
+Midwinter, mid-thirties, suitcase cracked
+Tangled Up in Blue seats, torn upholstery
+Every love’s a wound if you tell it closely
+
+He’s beside me, hat pulled low
+Says names don’t matter, then says his does
+Talks in riddles, coughs up smoke
+Says truth is just a different joke
+
+[PRE-CHORUS]
+I ask him straight, he laughs and stalls
+Says “I contain multitudes” then denies it all
+
+[CHORUS]
+First rule of Bob D
+You don’t explain Bobby D
+Second rule, you change the tune
+Right when they start to listen
+I’m riding shotgun with a ghost and a grin
+Trying to work out where belief begins
+Slow train coming, fast blood drying
+Am I watching history
+Or am I next in line?
+
+[VERSE 2]
+He says Desire’s just a mask
+Scarlet bandana, rolling cast
+Hurricane stories, violin crime
+Truth bends better when it rhymes
+
+Street-Legal sermons, horns too loud
+Choir creeping in from the crowd
+I say “Is this where faith kicks in?”
+He says “Kid, faith is a different skin”
+
+[PRE-CHORUS]
+He points ahead, track starts to glow
+Says “You don’t find God — He boards you slow”
+
+[CHORUS]
+First rule of B. D.
+Never trust the phase
+Third rule, burn the map
+Fourth rule, praise and blame
+Blood on the tracks, then a ticket stub
+From heartbreak hotel to the Book of Job
+Slow Train Coming, no return fare
+I don’t know if I’m following
+Or already there
+
+[BRIDGE – UNRELIABLE NARRATOR]
+Maybe he’s real
+Maybe he’s me
+Maybe I read him into history
+Charlemagne with a harmonica crown
+Founding empires, burning them down
+
+He says “Saved isn’t irony”
+I say “Neither is Shot of Love”
+He says “You want sincerity?”
+I say “Yeah — but not enough”
+
+[BREAK]
+The train won’t stop
+The questions stack
+Every answer changes the track
+
+[VERSE 3]
+He quotes scripture, then quotes himself
+Leaves both unlabeled on the shelf
+I say “Did you mean it?”
+He says “At the time”
+Which feels like truth
+Or feels like a crime
+
+I check my reflection in the window glass
+See Eli Mercer wearing someone else’s past
+If he could pivot, vanish, return
+What’s the lesson I’m meant to learn?
+
+[FINAL CHORUS]
+First rule of influence
+You swear you’re not influenced
+Second rule, deny the debt
+While you’re counting interest
+Blood on the tracks, slow train hum
+Faith or fracture, here it comes
+He tips his hat, says “You’ll be fine”
+Leaves me alone
+With a voice that sounds like mine
+
+[OUTRO]
+Train keeps rolling
+Names decay
+History’s just a long delay
+If Dylan’s Charlemagne, what am I then?
+Another passenger
+Learning when
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