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Blood In The Sand

from Songs Without Proper Implementation by Gwade

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Written in 15 minutes and recorded immediately (about 1998) in an hour or two, but it gets the best feedback of any recorded song I've ever done.

lyrics

Twelve steps beyond the border
A shot fired through my leg
(It's) Just my luck, (I've) been shot three times today

With one horse, a mule and water
And her daddy's fat nest egg
My only need was to blaze a trail away

Blood in the sand
Let it represent all for which I stand
Let the red rocks rise up from this curs-ed land
She should never forgive me
But I hope someday
She will understand

(She wanted) Me and I had to have her
Even though she wasn't mine
A new son-in-law had her hand but not her heart

As I snuck out of the manor
With all the diamonds from the mine,
A memory, and other works of art

Blood in the sand
Reminds me of the moment that we spanned
Of the stolen ring not on her tender hand
She should never have released me
But I hope someday
She will understand

(And) I dragged my carcass through the desert
Escaping my own fate
Hallucinations filled with pleasure
While buzzards congregate
Just one thing kept me from going
A hope we all await...

Now I stumble through a pasture
On a Mexican plateau
My wounds have healed but it's been a painful time

Seems like yesterday, not last year
I was running from my foes
It's so nice of them to pay for (all) my crimes

Blood in the sand
It's what I left behind to become a better man
And there she sits, at the place that we had planned
She has come to be beside me
And I'm glad today
She did understand

credits

from Songs Without Proper Implementation, track released January 1, 1998
Muse: None. She's just a vision.
Everything else: Gwade

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