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The Sunset Taught Me Goodbye

from Three Songs by Old Century Blood

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We built a fence to hold back the flood
oh what were we thinking?

Our hearts broke, the words flowed, through our throats
There’s no turning back

We had plans as sure as tattoos
all cut up like feet without shoes
Always walking back to you
I’m tired as dead flowers

It’s that age when cliché can’t move pain
I’ve got a collection of marks, against you, do you care?
Report cards mean nothing you knew I was fronting

(chorus)
The Sunset Taught me Goodbye (x2)
And oh there it goes (x2)

This is different, this is different and strange
But maybe what’s different is me
so sober for a change

Well Im just a shell of a man
I once was, but no more
All strung out on clean slates

I went weeks, beloved beer in my blood
Like a tag on my toe
I came up, for air, found myself
In the middle of nowhere and you certainly weren’t there

(chorus)
The Sunset Taught me Goodbye (x2)
And oh there it goes (x4)

credits

from Three Songs, released February 18, 2016
Vocal: Christopher James
Violin/Vocal: Kirana Peyton
Piano/Vocal: Joni Davis
Drums: Jason Berkman
Engineered and Mixed by Gregory Plumb and Joni Davis

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Old Century Blood California

Old Century Blood is the creation of Christopher James Bowers. He's been performing for over 25 years as a solo act and with various bands. He has shared the stage with such acts as Bill Frisell, Kirana Peyton, Joni Davis, and Jessie Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter. Old Century Blood is porch poetry written with inkblot inklings of grief and joy, a melancholy lust for life. ... more

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