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Abandoned Road

by Tarantella Fall

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1.
Laura Ann 04:21
For the screams you shout in my mind For the years I've lost in a pale light I never realised who I was Locked in the mind of a heart; dead, high on hurt Now I'm breaking down the road Tearing every thought in my mind Now I'm breaking down the road Knowing everything was a lie Laura Ann, Laura Ann must die Laura Ann, Laura Ann, cry Got a Bushman bagged in the trunk Got cable ties and your diesel dress I lit the match as you put the dress on And your tears burned fire to my hate Now I'm breaking down the road Tearing every thought in my mind Now I'm breaking down the road Knowing everything was a lie Laura Ann, Laura Ann must die Laura Ann, Laura Ann, cry
2.
Far Enough 03:48
Believe it or not, this is not what you see All the games play me Give it a shot, drink until you drown In the life long gone down This time, this is far enough, Far enough to know you're gone Lately there's been less for me to feel Come on out, numb me Nobody left to forgive and forget All the thoughts lost on the way You’re too far gone Enough to know you’re gone You’re too far gone, You’re too far gone
3.
Wasteland 03:58
Breathe on the stars a life is dawning Into the arms torn and pale Mothers heart has started beating Love is healing You were all I ever needed all along So damn scared to make a wrong move Don't want her to turn out like me Freedom lives within the promise I can do this You were all I ever needed all along You were all I ever needed A wasteland now is seeded You were all I ever needed all along I look around this broken place Don't know what to do I want to give you so much more And make you proud of me I hope you will, one day
4.
Going to Trumann, going to lay my old soul down Going to Trumann, God forgotten dust bowl town My family are gone and left me down on bended knee Twenty three dollars for my shelter and my keep I'm going to Trumann, Lay this old soul in the ground Second husband - fighting with the prison hound I've fallen down the stairs, walked into one too many doors He settled for me, I'm no better than those whores down in Trumann, - Salvation in the friend I've found Old Jack whiskey lying face down in the rain He sold a child for the snowball in his vein from the salesman, with the mansion on the hill It's invisible - the bullet and invisible - the kill Down in Trumann, but I hear the air is clean Going to Trumann, where the air is nice and clean
5.
Rising Tide 03:53
Just caught the news, Red Army blues Confront the line, cold dirt and crime Those eyes have changed Man re-arranged, foul mouth and lying Show her the scar, some fall out bar Here comes the shame, can't start again Those eyes are lost Won't share the cost of all that's gone Long Island Line, I'll meet you there We'll shoot the breeze and pretend again That you can keep your head above this rising tide Rolled over luck on the eight fifteen Turned up a rag, Spent all and been to a cherry sky Fall hard and drive on a full beam Stood up a date, I've been let go Cursed by a mate, But still I go to save your skin Some shit you're in, this blood of mine I think of the summer sky, I think of a younger guy Chasing all the girls, taking on the world And know you took care of me And that's why we'll always be brothers to the end Rising Tide has come again
6.
Dirt 02:53
Don't leave me this way - down in the dirt Don't be fooled by the look; A smile with the hurt Had my lovers and some Got caught in the web Tell them all what they want Hook, line, and run She's the one thing keeping me, One thing keeping me down She knows just how to get me so high then crash to the ground, Face in the dirt Dark side of the street Been left all alone Don't leave me this way Sunk like a stone
7.
Last Chance 04:32
This is a chance to look at the writing on the wall Take all the words and change them, just before the fall Carve my name onto this list of people that went wrong Got to see how you can shine I see that look in your eye Make worlds collide, See you fly See a young boy playing, content with what he's got Let me go back to him, tell him what he's really worth When I close my eyes, I know I don't deserve a thought Bring me out; take me out into the light I know this chance is my last See you again, lose the past Come on show me how to breathe My last chance (I know this chance is my last)
8.
Sharp tone love With a high tone voice Let me show you where to go Can't you see all I do for you? Laura Ann, now you know Feel my hand Going to set you straight Got to put you in your place You don't know what I can show Breathe in slow Can you hear me scream words to show you that I care? I can help you through What's wrong with you? Don't waste your time with prayer You can't see what I can see
9.
Six A.M. and she's not home Panic set, thoughts are racing through Jessica my sweet, they have taken you for all I've done The cops have come around now, taking this onto the abandoned road It's just a piece of time, your body they will find on abandoned road And it’s the long arm, the long arm of the law Sixteen months pass and I'm consumed Whispers in my ear have led me to… Two cops are on the beat, and beat them is all I want to do Thoughts run through my head, she once fled down abandoned road His badge now was worn; he'd been here before The abandoned road The wind blew hard and the rain poured down Screams swallowed by the night around His grip on her hair, and the pleasure dancing in his eyes My hands to them are tied, every time they tried to hide on abandoned road As she fell to the ground, the headlights stared her down the abandoned road And it's the long arm, the long arm of the law
10.
Junk 04:27
Junk, slowing me down, shed this loaded high Drive by on a hit, down Miller drive With his crimeless face, I still can't believe he's alive Hung high to the sky Birds don't fly in a torched sky Like the sun don't burn, Learn that the dead don't dream, You'd have seen that the mind don't lie Ask - you'll not receive, the answer far out of reach If you want I can drive you out of your mind Drop this game I believe you want me to freeze-frame on your dress In the summer sun see my head fall into a sigh You're like a kite Get off of this junk I can feel it dragging me down Lost sight of the crowd Love's out to kill Seen the gallows to hang my hat I'm going to burn all the smiles in your photograph ‘Til the memory fades of a beautiful day Like the broken down cars on a lost highway And I'll scare up a scream for the rush of blood Wash me away, re-born in the flood A continuous fall from such a high And I'm just junk to you.
11.
Cold Heart 04:32
Drive in the nail, cold heart Tearing the skin and bleed, cold heart Your cigarette smoke and a line of high You've no regret and nor do I, cold heart The city is ripe tonight Feel it breathe in and out, cold night It's my turn to pick and his turn to drive The pulse of the chase is the pulse to this cold heart I first met Jack in Delaware, He cut my face in a drunken dare We've been driving ever since that day Cold Heart It's been a long day, falling down We got Jesus on the dashboard now I couldn't care less what you think This deadbeat motherfucker from last week He turned to me and said, “I forgive you” Last Saturday night, cold heart Had a man at his last breath, cold heart He looked at me and he asked me, “why?” It's all I can do to feel alive, cold heart
12.
Face grizzled and red they poured rain on my head They made the ground cold, made my bones weak and old I drink for the pain, man bring it again One for the road, come on share the load And we'll sing to the patriots, made us free men Whom I wish that I could be, not what you see Where did I go wrong? I was just Somebody's Son The coins that you give me can't you see how they fix me? Feeding the habit, can't see how to leave it Tear off all my rags, stitch up all the scars Take me back to the kid who fooled in the car Before it went wrong, now the screaming lives on Crashed over again, Three gone - save me Where did I go wrong? I was just Somebody's Son
13.
Married in the fall of 84, to a lonesome heart I ran Marie was born in a wet July, a thorn to a bitter mind Never knew a man could hate a child and turn that hate on me Way down at Spanish Point As screams grew loud his fist grew tight, bruise and tear my heart Mercy eyes I gave to him, a shadow smile stared back Three full summers of the heavy blow, I took about all I could Way down, way down at Spanish Point Sharpening the blade of a Culinare The plastic lines the Ford Fill him to the brim with the whiskey overflow Drive him to the edge of the highest cliff Cutting him a smile, the tide will drift Tonight I'll lay him down, I'll lay him down Eighteen years I've raised a girl, who never had to fear a day And never knew the life I gave for the other I took away My eyes are dead, my heart is black, I've poured out all my soul Way down, way down at Spanish Point

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Abandoned Road was recorded in the last half of 2010, under the production stewardship of Dave “Skippy” Christophers in his Karma Korner studio in Dublin. The 13 song collection tells the fictional story from various parts of the life of John W, his dark past and how he became the person he was. Musically it veers from Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, hitting R.E.M. and Radiohead and lots more in between. At the core of their sound though is good old-fashioned storytelling through song.

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released March 25, 2011

Neville Foster - Drums & Percussion
Graham Keogh - Bass Guitar
Christopher Kinsella - Vocals, Acoustic & Electric Guitars
Ronan O’Donovan - Acoustic, Electric Guitars & Harmonica
Recorded, Engineered & Mixed by Dave Christophers
Additional Recording & Editing by Ian Flynn & Thom McDonnell
Produced by Dave Christophers & Tarantella Fall
Recorded at Karma Korner Studios
For more www.ndtproductions.com
Mastering: Fergal Davis
Piano, Hammond & Keyboards: Derek Andrews
Album Inlay Photography & Design: Graham Keogh
All songs and lyrics written by Ronan O’Donovan except: Spanish Point - Song by Ronan O’Donovan & Christopher Kinsella; Sharp Tone Love - Lyrics by Ronan O’Donovan & Christopher Kinsella.
All music by Neville Foster, Graham Keogh,
Christopher Kinsella & Ronan O’Donovan

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Tarantella Fall Dublin, Ireland

Tarantella Fall launched their debut album 'Abandoned Road' in 2011. It contains a set of themed songs that could have been written for a speculative noir B-picture set in the American heartland.

They release their brand new single 'Home on May 3rd 2013 from their second long-player.
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