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Dead Reckoning

from Call It Sleep by Amy Annelle & the Places

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©2004 by Amy Annelle/High Plains Sigh Music (BMI)

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Fifteen men
On a deadman's ship aground
Take your leave
And a switchblade in case you need
To cut the throat of any ghost you meet
And keep you safe from
Sailors like me

In a port town for now
On a dock working cargo
Oh, but you won't be long
Your address is spread far and wide
Through ghost and almost-ghost towns
All the towns you
Found your way into

The stars have all done their part
Now they're tired of us watching
Lined up as ever always

Where to now
What to put your bare hands to
Oh, but we won't belong
Our address is spread far and wide
Through border and empty mine towns
All the towns you
Found your way into

The stars have all done their part
Now they're tired of us watching
Lined up as ever always

Could not be easier than now
No one left to let down
They lost you to dead reckoning

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from Call It Sleep, released January 1, 2004
Amy Annelle: tenor guitar, vocals, shortwave
Jude Webre: upright bass
Rachel Blumberg: piano

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Amy Annelle Austin, Texas

A prolific writer and interpreter of songs, Amy Annelle maps out the farther reaches of American music, while conjuring visions of our restless musical past. Over the course of ten albums & thousands of miles logged on the road, Annelle has cultivated a rarified voice and repertoire that "blooms with open-hearted, lustful vulnerability and a harrowing naturalistic solitude”(Crawdaddy). ... more

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