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Gallows Bound

by Gallows Bound

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1.
I've been running 'round these hills since I was twelve years old I've come across some heartache on every dusty road these men they say they love me you know they always lie I think I find an honest one and I have to say goodbye met that black widow woman when I was drinkin at the bar we did ourselves and eight ball and we stole ourselves a car went on down to the river in our brand new stolen truck steel .45 to the back of my head knew I was shit out of luck black widow woman turning men to fools head on down to the blue ridge mountain hear that woman's news born in old kentucky raised in west virginia don't you know that damn black widow woman's gonna kill ya I met that black widow woman when I was seventeen we lived down by them dusty mines so I promised her a ring I thought that evil woman had a heart of gold never knew she'd be a diamond turned back into coal I've been running 'round these hills and now I'm growing old I've come across some heartache on every dusty road these men they say they love me you know they always lie thought I had an honest one but I had to say goodbye
2.
The Damaged 03:06
She walks, dragging like a corpse with her heart hanging low and that old comfortable feeling chills her to the bone. he talks, nobody hears him its getting old one more shot to numb the feeling soon he'll be out the door. out that door one more time and alone separately they cry break me out of this cage break me out of these bones I'm locked and chained raise me out of this flood I'm drowning in my veins treat me like a dagger put me in my place don't it seem like just yesterday that it all was fine how quickly does it all change reading between the lines so it stands, how the damaged seem to love their kind and they wait for someone to save them too afraid to try desperately hear them cry for help but no one can save you from yourself
3.
A pot full of blood with no fire or coil turned away and dismissed surely will boil in our hours of guilt and sorrow we toil just as bones left alone slowly sink in the soil give me the sacred life that I once led black crow carry me home weigh all that I have let it sink to the bottom on oily dark wings I'll roam in the time I've wasted looking around I've grown blind in the time I've wasted shutting my mouth I've grown quiet and I can hold on for arms overhead or rethink all these words that I've said love or hate what's deserved in the end its just me just me and what I want things to mean I stack those stones high to try and separate the shadows from the darkness buried by the walls I've made with ashes to anger and dust to disgrace a place for all things and all things in their place this ground is for spirits of forgotten lives I hear them whisper to me singing their sorrow with eyes sick and hollow they're reaching for something to keep creep to the water don't let them see you they'll steal your soul and drain your heart for a taste of truth
4.
Old dominion flowers drink Virginia rain and I'm going off to that spot where your last words remain when will that day come when I don't feel the blame and who thought I'd be the one they'd never see again I went to the doorway collapsed in the frame I hung my head low and those flowers did the same like all the I needed was someone to say boy, get your mind off those things you cant change and I dug a grave and inside I buried shame don't give me no comfort no I'll be just fine an ocean of words say you ain't got much time your breath came short and your eyes they went blind and that wave folded on me and I drowned beneath the tide and I dug a grave and inside I buried shame I don't ever wanna find the things I lost again
5.
Fauna's Song 04:04
Wayward winds blow my way tell me everything will be okay floating soft, letting me rise awake howling through freezing rain February is cracking decayed falling off,we move like the dead limbs sway let the night fall and the storms rain down I'm gonna dig my feet into the solid ground if the sun don't come and the clouds don't clear turn your head I am standing here through smoky mirrors we clear our way treading on coals of our yesterdays forging on, in all that appears an escape the joy in all we called mistakes a halo of green on a forsaken grave fauna's song, into the concept of fate
6.
Tell the buzzard come down tell him pick my heart away I don't need it anymore, no its only bringing me pain tell virginia creeper come out wrap around my weary brain I don't want it anymore only makes my cold heart ache let it all fall down Tell the devil come down tell him take my soul away I don't want it anymore can't pay back the debt I've made send the hounds on out tell 'em they can lead the way I can hear them dogs howlin dragging bones and rattling chains let it all fall down It'll fall back into place I can't take this way of living somebody come take it away
7.
I walk the path before me cut with each step I take the fog hung low like my heavy heart but it wont break A shadow creeps behind me so close that I could feel a chill so cold just like a ghost a breath upon my heels And yet a familiar feeling like that of an old foe the walk of a tired demon come to take me down below I realized when I heard the dogs howling like a siren trying to take me home in my pain it burned away but that echo still remains of a life I walked away from long ago In mud and sinking quickly no solid ground, alone thought I was safe a sorry state was all I had to mourn All those empty winters trapped me in your hold the flames like rage in your embrace so sick but not alone Oh faithful companion that sorrow in your cry now I run from what I'd become and I'm leaving you behind At night I still hear them dogs a' howlin they try to take me down but I wont go Cause I fell into that fire and I walked out of those coals I've been through hell ain't going back no more.
8.
I see all these autumn leaves falling to the ground everyday have I been just holding on waiting for the wind to take me away this burning in my soul but I know the embers burnt out long ago every passing moment of clarity please come back home and set me free old crows they'll claim its love then turn around and talk when you're gone and I never had much to say but it don't take much for them crows to write a song forgotten or forgiven I know its all the same to me old crows just leave me alone just go back home and leave me be
9.
mourning dove take me home down by the water gonna rest my bones far away from myself take me back to freedom lay me down lay me down rest my soul with your sound sing aloud sing aloud won't you stay before me hear your call hear your cry somber in the morning light come on in away you fly like the days before me so it stands there you go off in the night but tomorrow you'll be back yes I know back to sing my story
10.
Del Fuego 04:04
Got a song on my mind and a tank full of gasoline been working 9 to 5 we're leaving at 8:15 I am an ax blade ragged and worn overworked and forgotten laid to rust in the sun oh that chopping, that hellish sound wash the blood from my blade and oh no you wont be found lord, we're going down gonna travel 'round this country I'm gonna get around strumming strings, smoke and drinkin in every single town I am a freight train with iron and coals I'm running off the tracks and you're choking on that smoke through the fire I screech and howl when we get to where we're going we'll be six feet underground we're going down fire burning aint going out bullet flying aint slowing down shadow walking and I'm hell bound I am a switch blade, rusted and toxic I'll cut out your heart while youre reaching in your pockets cold steel and silence, don't you turn around when we get to where we're going we'll be six feet under ground we're going down
11.
Gray Water 02:49
Going down to that water like we used to do watching the willows swaying in the breeze like the time, where does it go and you fly like the heron out of my arms and the sky turned gray like the gravel road you rode away on gonna drive my car into the sunset watch it burn away funny how I was never one for running I guess that's just something I said like the sky swallowed up by the night and i'm gone maybe I will rise up out of that darkness just like the dawn gonna take my trouble to the ocean drowned, lay it all to rest funny how I could never stand in gray water and now I'm in over my head and it's a tragic feeling don't know where to go just sing my heart out and cry nevermore

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released July 22, 2014

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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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