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Baggage Claim / Purgatory Blues

by Ian Cat

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It's getting close to midnight here In the city where you once felt clear And I Feel like a kid on Christmas Eve The devil's highway spared my life I guess my stars still have some shine And you I can't wait to see that smile Standing here Waiting on you My bags are packed now, baby Won't you claim me too Won't you claim me too Watch the lovers embrace now Their eyes light up just like the sights in this town And I Can feel your flight touch down My nerves are flaring as I pass the time But then I see a face that remembers mine And you Just like heaven before my eyes Standing here Waiting on you My bags are packed now, baby Won't you claim me too Won't you claim me too
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The war was over and I headed west to hell Mesmerized by colored lights, the celluloid, and death Dreaming dreams of grander schemes, pinching every nerve Momma didn't school me for a failure I've traveled states of mind, I'm still inside my skull Reeling feelings to my soul, always wanting more I long for the escape of poetry in your eyes The colors speak beyond the lonesome tide Crying out in sickness I call you by name Seeking sweet redemption I'm ready for the pain I got the Purgatory Blues Down here where the rains don't come, my soul might turn to dust I feel time pass fearlessly, but have I done enough Sparks have flown and circuits blown, is the gutter my next fall I've got some wounds but I'm still standing tall The crowd can sweep me up and sway but they don't understand My heart's on my sleeve, tongue's cut short -- I wear these like a badge Can't you see there's life in me trying to take hold I've more to give and less to lose for sure Crying out in sickness I call you by name Seeking sweet redemption I'm ready for the pain I got the Purgatory Blues Yonder stands the sinner in me, treatise in his hand Begging for a signature or just another pass There's hell to pay there either way, but I'm keeping all my soul I've still got love inside of me worth reaching down for more Dancing with the waves, I feel the desolation rise Choices made, past is gone, is this life a lie To know you are so far away, the distance shreds my heart I want you once to hear me now: I LOVE YOU MORE THAN DEATH Crying out in sickness I call you by name Seeking sweet redemption I'm ready for the pain I got the Purgatory Blues

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released January 5, 2016

Songs, guitars, vocals, tambourines, piano, and organ by Ian Laczynski.
Percussion by Matt Jones.

Engineered, recorded, and mixed by Matt Jones at Woolly Mammoth Sound, Waltham, Massachusetts.

Mastered by Scott Craggs at Old Colony Mastering, Boston, Massachusetts.

Released by Salieri Records. SLR004

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