SONGS 2004 THREAT OF RAIN

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Rain a coming in The Photographers wife Whippoorwill Hotel Crab Apple Blues Dredging the Serpentine Threat of Rain

SHAUN BELCHER HORSHOE SONGS 2013

RAIN A COMING IN well I been thinking about you all night Ill be thinking about you until the morning light I sure hope the weather better there than here its dark now and the rain is a coming in yeah its dark here dark and the rains a coming in somewhere on the road in some cold hotel I lost the warmth of your arms cold sheets was all I felt texas summers are too darn hot but these snows are cold all the way from Corpus Christi Bay I been so alone yeah its dark here dark and the rains a coming in bright sun shining. clear blue skies over the panhandle i can see for miles and miles...you said as we landed but now the darkness is pouring across those flatlands the darkness I tried so hard to push away with my hands its just a feeling but I cant shake it from my soul no lord Ill keep on trying to keep a moving down this road cos its dark now and that rain is a coming in yeah its dark here dark and the rains a coming in gotta get movin. miles 'n' miles before I sleep

THE PHOTOGRAPHERS WIFE

It happened in a second Flashed like a dog tag in her eye Splinters all over the place Like it was Leeds in 1979 He was still wired could see it in his eyes Then the revolution turned sour Shes been crying for hours The Photographers Wife He used to wear a dog collar Followed The Clash around Drove an old Morris Minor From Brighton to Birmingham Yeah it was a riot of his own Theyre still fighting twenty years later and shes still crying The Photographers Wife He said she walked into the glass As her blood dripped through his fingers After he smashed her with his fist He listened to Sandanista for an hour And blew smoke rings at the ceiling And shes cleaning up in the kitchen Singing along through the sobbing The Photographers Wife

WHIPPOORWILL HOTEL Sitting on a fence watching the clouds Wandering what the hell this life is about The last three months been expecting rain The creeks run dry the dirts cracked again When you expect rain All you get is sun When you need water Theres nowhere to run From Whippoorwill Hotel Well I didnt cheat and I didnt lie But still she left when the clock-tower chimed Disappeared in smoke down a dusty railroad line As the cornfields shimmered in the haze Well that was 10 summers past and Im still here Clinging to a memory and a pint of beer Seems like nothing but dry days is our fate Just a waiting for a cloudburst to wash me away Cant escape from this heat and dust In the lobby of the Whippoorwill Hotel

CRAB APPLE BLUES I wish that you loved me as much as I loved you Every time you appear baby I scuttle out of view Now my heart is just like a crab I've got the crab apple blues since I met you I wish that you loved me half as much as I loved you Then I'd feel so much better than I know I do I've got a heart that's broken and scuttling out of view Oh my heart is blue, crab apple blue You give me nothing, nothing to grip upon I'm lost on the shore like a crab in a storm Oh I've got crab apple blue, I'm lost, crab apple blue How I wish you loved me half as much as I loved you Every time you appear I disappear from view Crab apple blue How I wish you loved me half as much as I loved you If I was a carpenter I'd build myself a box Put it the post then I'd always be lost Crab apple blue

DREDGING THE SERPENTINE It's so quiet on The Serpentine Nannies pushing carriages little boys running behind And out on the cold Atlantic The Lusitania's still on time. The Nanny sits on the bench Little boy runs to the waters edge He's got a model liner in his hand He lets it go it sails out west And out in the Atlantic The Lusitania's still on time John Thompson's got two little kids Today he's working a extra shift Dredging the Serpentine His bucket empties against the sky And the liner falls through the blue sky And the liner falls through the blue sky And somewhere off Ireland Somewhere in the cold Atlantic swell The Lusitania is still on time The Lusitania is still on time The Lusitania is still on time He picks it from the mud He washes it under a tap And its hull starts to shine Just like it was always on time Out on the Atlantic In the deep cold swell The Lusitania has been blown to hell The Lusitania has been blown to hell The Lusitania has been blown to hell So quiet on the Serpentine Nannies pushing carriages Little boys running behind And out on the Atlantic The Lusitania's on time And his parents are still alive...

THREAT OF RAIN Standing looking out on my garden everything seems OK Hasn't been a storm for three months Fields are needing rain Where was it we were going When the black clouds turned grey Seems like the whole world Is living with the threat of rain I watched my father die It wasn't a pretty sight I spent the last five years living with the threat oif rain I see the clouds coming in I wonder about my death Wonder about the threat of rain The threat of rain will it take my friends away We're all living with the threat of rain oh lord the threat of rain I go down on my knees and pray With the threat of rain Relieve me from the threat of rain Relieve me from the threat of rain