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Appalachian Witch EP

by Gallows Bound

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1.
I step my feet from those hollers and vines where the sun don't show the sun don't shine And I'll take all the blame just a victim of the times cause I don't know lord just what you had in mind down my flask no not for sympathy I ain't cleaning up my act so please don't tempt me I ain't had much in life but drinks I've had plenty and it's just like my heart that son of a bitch is empty I've got my reasons for wandering around so if you find my body and I don't make a sound you dig a shallow hole on the outskirts of town tell them all I left and then put me in the ground take my gun take the last of my change I don't need it where I'm going It's all been arranged that devils waiting for me list of sins that he's made my good fortunes run out and there's a tab that I can't pay the kiss you give so sweetly I can feel you on my lips the warmth of bourbon whiskey like the heat between your hips you're coursing through my veins you're the captain of this ship as you lay me down to rest what's left of my heart it skips imagine my face when you take off your disguise It's the devils clothes you wear and it should come as no surprise It's a jaded life I've made now the well is running dry just these old sorry bones left to soak in gin and rye.
2.
Shake 03:13
Shake the devil off your shoulder come on down and raise your head who’s gonna pick it up if you didn't staring at the wishing well low down like a sinking penny waiting time is slipping through your hands salvation it ain’t coming get off your knees and stand go on traveling down that road find what you're looking for so you can let it go you can walk a thousand miles only to find what you are is what you leave behind every day is so uncertain what and who’s lying up ahead keep it going moving on and learn to walk again shake that devil off your shoulder no scapegoat for idle hands what do you get when you go shaming someone else for what you’ve been there is no penance there is no sin just what you take and what you give find your own way don't go inflicting punishment for some forgiveness no forgiveness
3.
Broken Glass 03:25
Take your finger off the trigger I see you race against the light don’t go, she calls to you water’s getting deeper the sky is closing in almost consumed what do you do lion or the lamb you run like a shadow on the wall I don’t think you can take it all with what is given what is lost the price, who knows the cost tell me what kind of living is it just trying not to give up don’t go, losing control lion or the lamb let the darkness in let it lay on the bed you made of broken glass and sin
4.
Sulking holds her stride through the leaves antlers lace her hair with feathers and teeth holes are her eyes sunk and black born of thorn and thistle along the tracks her hands are the frost on your breath her tongue makes the Blue Ridge reek of death river county ready all your pyres Appalachian witch forged in the fires lead the children to the hills you run when I call there's blood in the plains tonight her howl calls their names to her side I met her in them broken pines and I asked her "what's it take" and I drank blood from her dirty hands now blood is all I taste preacher holds his cross like a knife and gun but god ain't saving you or anyone hunter and the harvest lie the same something gotta pay for us to stay storm crawling down the banks the sky it falls sick of all the rot in our veins we set the mountains ablaze as fire swept across them hills i wretched from our mistake our babies bones all through the woods and no witches for our stakes
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III 01:06
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Guardian 04:57
I will never forget the bricks on my feet the summer air and the beat of my heart when the devil grabbed my hand he stole my body ripped it away so fast I couldn't feel and led me to things I never wanted to believe he laid me down in that hole in the ground and shoveled in every little piece of me that I had to give ‘till I was no more everything I know is gone every little right and every wrong is gone never to return by the sound of a flickering lantern by the cold tiles and the mirror in the bathroom did you see me bleed out on the floor I heard it coming like a roaring freight train from a soft vibration to sound so frightening but I was always tied down to those tracks and if this nightmare doesn't kill me the road I'm walking on will do just fine and I know when you lay down to die you open your eyes why doesn't anyone come to me hold me down tell me this is a dream turn me around show me the door and let me leave burn away all that you know this white hell this sinking black hole show the people that you know summer nights never felt so cold in shadows and dreams I feel the ghost of a life that I just let go I feel the fire of deceit creeping in your home guardian angel grab your gun we’re not alone protect me from the snakes that are hissing and waiting to feed us the poison

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Appalachian Witch-EP
Recorded by Mark Reiter at Bias Studios Springfield, VA

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released April 21, 2017

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Gallows Bound Winchester, Virginia

Though deeply rooted in the traditional bluegrass of their home in Virginia, Gallows Bound has a strong affection for their upbringing in punk rock and stitches their influences together in a blazing fury of Appalachian Punk Bluegrass. Formed in 2012, the band released self-titled album in 2014 and has been touring non-stop since. New release "Appalachian Witch" set to release in Spring 2017 ... more

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