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The Faded Rake

from Love Songs For Loners by LP Kelly

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lyrics

Chorus
You built your life from poetry and violence
Now all that's left are cigarettes and silence
Dim recollections of the stories that you made
You thought you'd die before you had to own up
You were a legend, but now your friends have grown up
You thought you'd burn out, but never thought you'd fade

You wandered the barrio with a samurai sword
Took 25 sleeping pills on the guesthouse floor
Kaolin and morphine seeping from the corners of your lips
Started a brawl down at Archibald's bar
Swinging in the car park with a blue bottle guitar
Tits up in the mud before you'd loosen up your grip

Chorus

Seasick in a van with five other guys
Passing out with a pen and a bottle of wine
Slowly growing deaf, and it's probably just as well
Rain Dogs clanking from the tape deck in the dash
Head tipped back, your knuckles white with ash
An aging lonesome rake who's lost his way to hell

But goddam you could sing; goddam you could play
Goddam you could hold a whole room in your sway
God damned you to hell before you could die
Now there's nothing but ghosts in your eyes

Chorus

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from Love Songs For Loners, released February 14, 2021

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The sound of LP Kelly (formerly Old Man Kelly) comes from the early days of American roots music: when bluesmen sang from front porches on hot afternoons; when swing bands played dances in speakeasies late into the night. Kelly has worked to encourage a renaissance in music that has a history and a place – music that demands the listener dig deeper to find its roots in geography and time. ... more

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