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Mississippi

from Junebug by Jon Charles Dwyer

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You split your last bit of speed drugs.
Sometimes the dawn don't shake your sin off.
It's soon to call down lightning but that thunder's so inviting in its call.

Who's tending to the garden?
You know well the fox and his claws.
Cause the drugs wore off in Little Rock and I hear the scratching hollowing out my jaw.

And it's a few hundred miles to Mississippi.
Are we hellbent on the misery or mystery?
Called off the search for my regret
And they ain't found me yet.
I could stand to lose just a little more.
A little more of me.

Last night in Oklahoma
I saw death sit at our feet.
And the moments turned to melodies I'll be singing when he takes his final swing.
Now I'm sweating out the sickness.
Another song paints my eyes red.
There's a price to pay for living out every debt you've ever made in your own head.

And it's a few hundred miles to Mississippi.
Are we hellbent on the misery or mystery?
Called off the search for my regret
And they ain't found me yet.
I could stand to lose just a little more.
A little more of me.

Now we're so many miles from Mississippi.
I'm stuck with all the misery and mystery.
If I light this lamp in wild belief and all its wicked honesty,
Guess I could stand to see a little more of me.

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from Junebug, track released January 29, 2021
Pedal steel: Rebecca Branson Jones
Fiddle: Alex Travers

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Jon Charles Dwyer Asheville, North Carolina

Jon Charles Dwyer's songs embody the spirit of the Appalachian mountains he is married to: all poverty stricken loss and desire set against the backdrop of the most beautiful springtime of love and fresh hope tumbling over those hills and down to the valleys below. ... more

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