Ode to Orleans

by The Slow Kill

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A shark-eating moon, fat on the sea,
Don't you talk down on the Queen.
She said her heart was like a trumpet
blown too high, with one big bell
at the end of a long and burning bend.

When will you swallow me, Siren?
I'm waiting, I am waiting to be taken.
Buddy Bolden's blood boiled, boiled out,
when you broke his neck, you broke
his neck wide open.

And the streets were red, painted red.
And now they're trying to pave her
with that old white cement, but I say,
let's shame them. Shame them down instead.

Well, if it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing,
then how you gonna shoot the lady down
that birthed that thing?
Oh lady wills that she will stay,
so keep pushing the water out.

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released October 11, 2014
Bass- Kevin Waldrop
Drums- Bryan Hadley
Trumpet- Parkpoom Aempoo
Guitar/Vocals- Elizabeth Yandel

Recorded and produced at Track Town Records

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