Casting shadows in the morning light / “heaven save me if I roam”
Decay and desolation fill your sight / you slowly realize it’s your home
Your home
Cinderella she is quite a sight / pinned down on Desperation Road
You told her you would be there past midnight / but it wasn’t her who skipped this show
This show/ Blood spilled out on whitest snow
Take my hand / I have to learn to be somehow / a righteous man / but there’s southern girls in party gowns / and I don’t know / how / the rain is still pouring / down
The rain’s still pouring down
Blow a kiss and softly say goodnight / a desperado works alone
But you’re not what you think of yourself boy / you’re just a kid who’s casting stones
Casting stones / until one hits your car window
Take my hand / I have to learn to be somehow / a righteous man / but there’s southern girls in party gowns / and I don’t know / how / the rain is still pouring / down
The Taxpayers were able to put down a tacklist of songs that allow us to go on a journey. In this album we experience the manic highs and lows one may experience in a life long battle with deteriorating mental health. The picture at times grim and beautiful is one I continually come back to as its tragedy never fades. Ulysses Johnson
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