Each month (more or less), we will install a lyric sheet here for a Shrimp City Slim original song that might be timely.
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There is a piano-only (instrumental) version of this song on "Rio Angie" (CD). Here are the lyrics...one of my favorite poems. I need to cut a vocal version of this or, ideally, find a singer who can do it justice.
Our journey is solo. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
—April 25, 2023 (Charleston, SC)
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ONLY ONE FRIEND LEFT (words & music: Gary Erwin, copyright 1979, published by Blue Chasqui Music (BMI).
I will drink until I / become one last / golden bone shimmer / slaking his thirst in a lake of mirrors
tied tight, resonating sound like / comic rivers who carve their / names into the ancient hollow of the earth
CHO: awake / only one friend left / only one historian / hellbent on freezing the time / time after crazy time
I will walk until I / become the road and / dissolve myself into the / rock and the mist of the corners of the world
laughing winds feed on / souls coughed up by life / chew twice and hypnotize the heaven and hell that dwells within us all
CHO: awake / only one friend left / only one historian / hellbent on freezing the time / time after crazy time
Now comes the time for / luminous friendship / I've got an extra head on / you're way ahead of recreation
Out of ourselves all night / alight and justified / we fight the aftermath of process and ply the open waters of the mind
CHO: awake / only one friend left / only one historian / hellbent on freezing the time / time after crazy time