1. |
Mule in a Swamp
03:55
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Mule in a Swamp
(Music and Lyrics by Chris Gleason)
I don't know if I'll get away
Only know what I need
Kickin' the stall both night and day
Hopin' that it satisfies me
Green grow the rushes, oh
Headed here right from the start
Green grow the rushes, so
Got about as much sense
As a mule in a swamp
Racing icy and saddle sore
Ain't no midnight rambler
Elevator down to the killing floor
Looking for a two-egg scrambler
Green grow the rushes, oh
Headed here right from the start
Green grow the rushes, so
Got about as much sense
As a mule in a swamp
I don't know if I'll get away
Only know what I need
I don't know if I'm here to stay
Only know what satisfies me
Green grow the rushes, oh
Headed here right from the start
Green grow the rushes, so
Got about as much sense
As a mule in a swamp
I don't know if I'll get away
I don't know if I'll get away
I don't know if I'll get away
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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2. |
Dragonfly
02:39
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Dragonfly
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
You run around me in a circle going round /
I try and catch you my dragonfly /
But you disappear / through the trees / down the path /
on my knees / I go down, down, down, down
I lay awake nights / thinking 'bout you on the ground /
Maybe you’re sleeping / or keeping someone now /
There is a field of flowers that I've found /
We could just live there together
But you disappear / through the trees / down the path /
on my knees / Go down, down, down, down /
Down, down, down, down
The water carries me floating down the stream /
I see your shadow above me /
I love your wings and the way that you move /
Above the water like an aeroplane
But you disappear / through the trees / down the path /
on my knees / I go down, down, down, down /
Whisper a promise to me / you'll come back and set me free
© 2013 Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
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3. |
Weeds
02:30
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Weeds
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
Cast me in the water
Reel me back in
You don't really want to see
the affect this has on me
You're in your little corner
and I'm well hidden
Beneath the reeds and muddy leaves
I'm glistening
Mmm mm mm mm
But time will change me once again
And I'll glide down the ravine
Where love is lost below the ground
where weeds are smiling
The cattails are collecting sun
Bending in the breeze
Beneath the dirt and garbage strewn
They live there easily
And I'm waiting for
your sun to shine
Make me whole again
There's love that lasts forever
Under sand and silt gleaming
It beckons me to wake you up
This all was just a dream
And we're watching the world being born
Tiny little seeds
© 2013 Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
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4. |
Badly Paid
02:36
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Badly Paid
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)
I don't care what / the neighbors may say / I'm eating French Toast for dinner / With cheap rosé / Can't untie this knot /
Tangled and torn / Makes me wish that I’d never been born /
Fugido e mal pago / Don't kiss and tell / Small town Iagos / They poison the well / Can't untie this knot / It's tangled and torn / Makes me wish that I ’d never been born /
So hard to sleep / in this old town / Gotta lasso the moon / pull it down / Grab the knife / Rosemary / Sacrifice / is pretty / darn scary /
****** and badly paid / ****** and badly paid /****** and badly paid / Send me on my way / ****** and badly paid / ****** and badly paid /****** and badly paid / Send me on my way /
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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5. |
Lady in Blue
02:13
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Lady in Blue
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
Mama mama I call out to you / Mama mama Lady in Blue / Worn out leather shoes / Pretty black hair / You were left alone by the raging river there / Raging river / The gutter and all its grime / Can't hide the beauty left behind / A garden for those inclined / to dig until you find / Dig until you find / Mama mama I call out to you / Mama mama Lady in Blue / Worn out leather shoes / Pretty black hair / You were left alone / To find your way out there / Find your way out there / I call you from this darkness / I call out into the night / I wait to feel the healing hands / and rest these tired eyes / Rest these tired eyes / Mama mama I call out to you / Mama mama Lady in Blue / Lady in Blue / Lady in Blue
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6. |
Dahlia
04:03
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Dahlia
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)
Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream / Lost your daddy in the crash of 1929 / Moved to California where the men all stood in line / Raven hair and turned-up nose and lips as red as wine / People called you Bette, but they had one thing in mind /
Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream /
Found a place in Hollywood / just a closet and a bed / Strings of men in uniform/ to pay for meals and rent / You would rather starve than wear a skirt that’s out-of-date / or provide the services that men anticipate /
Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream /
Inches from the sidewalk / Broken mannequin among the weeds / Arms raised up above your head / Perfect angles, forty-five degrees / Twenty former boyfriends, but the LAPD had no solid leads / Your killer washed you clean /
Once the tabloids caught the scent of your dark mystery / they misled your mama to unearth your history / Said you’d won a beauty contest / That is how they pried / before they said anything / about your Chelsea Smile /
Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia /
Life’s a bitter dream / Dahlia, Oh Dahlia / Pretty as can be / Dahlia, oh Dahlia / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a
bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream / Life’s a bitter dream
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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7. |
River
03:39
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River
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
Love come to me
Here is the key
Open me up Do you see
The light it's here inside of me
The dirty water will clean
The sun will burn up
The wound will heal
The dark will turn to light
The ashes into dust will reveal
There's something in the water
It said my name
A woman all alone
No one came
But the rain it comes
It floods the streets
Her cries can not be heard
The push and pull
The dark will turn to light
The ashes into dust
The daughter you gave up
Will be loved
© 2013 Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
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8. |
Waiting
03:41
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Waiting
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)
I'm waiting / patiently / waiting / patiently
Been a long time on this telegraph road /
Very long time to be carryin’ this load /
And I don't like when the sun goes down /
I don't like when the sun goes down /
I'm waiting / patiently / waiting / patiently
Been a long time since my heart had any soul /
Been a long time since my rock had any roll /
And I don't like when the sun goes down /
I don't like when the sun goes down
I'm just countin’ the days /
I'm just countin’ the ways /
Hopin’ and I'm prayin’ /
That you / Won't keep me
Waiting / Waiting / Waiting / Waiting
Been a long time but I'm gonna find my home /
Been a long time, I'm not gonna be alone /
And I won't mind when the sun goes down /
I won't mind when the sun goes down
‘Cause I’ve been countin’ the days /
I’ve been countin’ the ways /
Hopin’ and I'm prayin’ /
That you / Won't keep me
Waiting / Waiting / Waiting / Waiting
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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9. |
The Moon
02:56
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The Moon
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
The moon is full I can't deny
That look is clearly in your eyes
but I'm not there
no I'm not there
Love is like a bird it seems
It comes and goes
When'er it pleases
But I'm not there
No I'm not there
You, you, you, you are a dreamer
I see it in your eyes
But I'm an in betweener
I always find a place to hide
I'm walking backwards
When all I want to do is fly
Come on, come on, come on
Don't do this
It will only bring sadness and lies
The moon is full I can't deny
I see that look is in your eyes
and I'm right there
© 2013 Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
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10. |
Together in You
05:57
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Together in You
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)
You tend to fret / about your high-class dinner guests / You'd rather let the wolves in / than risk a wet tuxedo / A cigar butt / in a china cup / Whiskey bottle with a / missing screw top / Safety pins and hangers on the floor / A glimpse of you rushing out the door / And when you’re gone / I wait for you to come back home / It's true / no matter how screwed / It all comes together in you / In you /
Every word is polarized / Your lips read something different than what’s written in your eyes / You gather friends / like yard-sale odds and ends / like Grandma's VCR / a Japanese lawsuit guitar / Unopened letters on the floor / phone bills and parking tickets / in a kitchen drawer / But when you’re gone / I wait for you to come back home / It's true / those payments due / they come together in you / When you want them to / In you / when you want them to /
You listen to Skip James / and Tom Verlaine / You love 'em both but you'll never see 'em / on the bill together / Kurt Cobain /Sidney Bechet / Ain't no way the two of them could / share the same stage / But Richard Nixon couldn't have had soul / Without that Shakey combo / of country and rock and roll / So Gram and Emmylou / might sing a song by Husker Du / It's true / no matter how crude / they might come together in / you / If you really want them to / In you / If you want them to /In you / You could make ‘em / You could make ‘em / You
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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11. |
January
05:38
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January
(music by Chris Gleason, lyrics by
Chris Gleason and Lucy Martinez)
Hazy afternoons / Adolescent cool / Walked the train tracks home from school / Wasted midnights / Nineteen ninety three / Separated you from me / Something bitter / Someone in between / Something missing, something mean / Broken promise / Heart hid up your sleeve / Was it ever within reach? / January / January /
Cigarette smoke perfume / Ash of memory / Something burning underneath / So much time has passed / Not much left to see / But I'm thinking maybe / Cold and brittle / Sidewalk glistening / Baby, you and me / Broken promise / Heart hid up your sleeve / Was it ever within reach? / January / January /
Hazy afternoon / Winter gray and bleak / Drive to meet you down the street / Train is distant sound / City not so sweet / Want to stay here, never sleep / Tell me all the lies / Keep me from leaving / Watch you when you turn from me / Broken promise / Heart hid up your sleeve / Was it ever within reach? / January / January / January / January
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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12. |
Tainted Windows
01:57
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Tainted Windows
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
I'm sick from the games love
You left a long time ago
I've searched in your eyes
I've searched in the gutter you know
Where the sad and the hurt go
When they've lost the keys and the glasses
Running around in a blur of confusion and tainted windows
Hide behind a pretty design
All wrapped in clever colors
And light is hard to find
I've caused some of this, yeah
I've added my own damage
It's in a coffee pot buried
somewhere in the heap of a land fill
I'd climb up to retrieve it
Is it worth the trouble
Abandoned a long time ago
with other treasures I used to know
I'm sick from the game love
You left a long time ago
But you see how I reach for that broken glass behind tainted windows
Hide behind a pretty design
All wrapped in clever colors
© 2013 Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
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13. |
Maybe I Do
03:53
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Maybe I Do
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)
Sometimes I wonder / who you’re talking to / I’m not listening, ‘cause I know nothing’s new / Then you ask me if I think that we’re through / Maybe I do / Maybe I do
Sometimes I wonder / who I’m talking to / Whatever happened to that girl I once knew? / Then you ask me if I think that we’re through / Maybe I do / Maybe I do
I guess maybe it’s true / Maybe we’re through / Or maybe I still / want you
Oh, what a beautiful feeling / No, there’s not a thing I can do / Oh, what a beautiful feeling / No, there’s not a thing I can do / without you
Sometimes I wonder / what we’re gonna do / I just want to love you like I used to / Then you ask me if I think that we’re through / Maybe I do / Maybe I do / I guess maybe it’s true / Maybe we’re through / Or maybe I still / want you / want you / want you
© 2013 Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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14. |
At Night We Fall
07:12
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At Night We Fall
(music and lyrics by Chris Gleason)
Discarded an ace / In pursuit of a straight / Ah well / Guess that you can’t win ‘em all / But I just couldn’t let / myself get any deeper in debt / Now I’m keeping my back to the wall
Oh, the road to redemption / Is paved with the best intentions / You may walk in the way of a few good men / Yeah, the road to redemption / Is paved with the greatest intentions / And though we rise in the morning / At night we fall
The attorney was late / So I had to translate / Didn’t seem to make a grain of sense / Every page that I read her / Was full of dead letters / She said, I see what you mean / not what you meant
Oh, the road to redemption / Is paved with the best intentions / You may walk in the way of a few good men / Yeah, the road to redemption / Is paved with the greatest intentions / And though we rise in the morning / At night we fall
A friend is always a friend / A brother until the end / But the way of a fool seems right / in his own eyes / Yeah, I should have kept walking / That was just the tequila talking / ‘stead of hanging around / cutting you down to size
Oh, the road to redemption / Is paved with the best intentions / You may walk in the way of a few good men / Yeah, the road to redemption / Is paved with the greatest intentions / And though we rise in the morning / At night we fall / though we rise in the morning / At night we fall / though we rise in the morning / At night we fall
© Mule-in-a-Swamp Music (ASCAP)
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15. |
Bull in the Cage
02:01
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Bull in the Cage
(music and lyrics by Lucy Martinez)
I'm a bull in the cage and I'm gonna get out
I'm a bull in the cage
I'm a bull in the cage and I'm gonna get out
I'm a bull in the cage
Don't flash me the red if you don't have the key
Don't flash it at me
Don't flash me the red if you can't set me free
Don't flash it at me
Cause I'm pushing the door
and the lock is popping
Hear the metal crunching
From this heavy weight
I can feel your heart stopping
When you cut me loose
I'm gonna run away
Slipping out of the noose
I'm a bull in the cage
and I'm gonna get out
I'm a bull in the cage
I'm a bull in the cage
© 2013 Torito en la Jaula Music (ASCAP)
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Sado-Domestics Boston, Massachusetts
Sado-Domestics is the singing-songwriting partnership of Boston-based multi-instrumentalists Chris Gleason (Los Goutos,
Noise Floor Delirium) and Lucy Martinez (Lucy and the Dreamers).
Hey, Oaxaca (2020) is the third release from Gleason-Martinez, following a side-project, Noise Floor Delirium's Still Around (2017), and Sado-Domestics' debut album, Two-Egg Scrambler (2013).
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