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Liquor Soaked Road

from Mantennae by David P. Smith

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Written in the early 90's, this dark cautionary tale of the perils of liquor didn't fit well with The Dogbreath Brothers. Recorded in our living room at Walnut Street, Betty-Ann Lampman delivers the song with compelling conviction

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When you're a lifeless old toad
the romance of the liquor-soaked road
will start to become quite faded
When your sick tired soul
oh so deformed and so old
has gone way past the point of being jaded
Then the half remembered nights
drunken argument and fights
maudlin sentiment
so-called friends that came and went
things you said but never meant
will come raining like hail upon your memory

CHORUS
And there ain't no lie any thicker
than the one about the romance of liquor
and there ain't no road to ruin any quicker
than one of inebriation
darkness and degradation
one paved with sorrow
one they call the liquor soaked road

There will be nobody grieving
won't matter what you do or don't believe in
at the end of your dark drunken trail
There will be no church bells ringing
won't be no angel choirs singing
when your life light flickers and fails.
And all the people you let down
with your drunken running around
every lie that you told
to weasel one more for the road
every bottle you drank
'til you were pissed and you stank
will come raining like hail upon your memory

CHORUS

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from Mantennae, released September 3, 2009
Betty-Ann Lampman - vocals
David P. Smith - piano, back-up vocals
Scott Henderson - 6 string bass
Marek Tyler - drums
Gary Cherwonka - pedal steel

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David P. Smith Victoria, British Columbia

David P. Smith is a songwriter accordionist and multidisciplinary artist who in the past 18 years has released six full length recordings, numerous ep’s, and led a variety of musical projects that have consistently defied convenient genre classifications. ... more

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