St Louis Elegy

by Mark Lanegan Band

From the album: Blues Funeral

Track 4 of 12 on Blues Funeral (2012).

Duration: 4:34

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Lyrics for St Louis Elegy

I look at the sky I see an airplane as it flies Is this the way they said Jesus came? Gone through St. Louis Gone straightaway And I hear the winter Will cut you quick If tears were liquor I'd have drunk myself sick Woman are you home? A house of cards, a frame of bones Here I am earthly bound Said hallelujah I'm going down And the River Jordan is deep and wide I think I see forever across on the other side I look at the sky I see a nightbird as it flies Over the old bent cherry trees Shivering in a row Down here the winter Will cut you quick These tears are liquor, oh yeah And I've drunk myself sick And the dead of winter Will cut you quick These tears are liquor, hmmm And I've drunk myself sick

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  2. Bleeding Muddy Water
  3. Gray Goes Black
  4. St Louis Elegy
  5. Riot In My House
  6. Ode To Sad Disco
  7. Phantasmagoria Blues
  8. Quiver Syndrome
  9. Harborview Hospital
  10. Leviathan
  11. Deep Black Vanishing Train
  12. Tiny Grain Of Truth