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Hunted

from Hymnal (2014) by Joey Carbo

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{music &lyrics: J. Carbo}
Joey- acoust &elect guitars, vocals, analogue synth, keyboard
Jason Spring- drums, bass

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i got a half-sick feeling that i mighta' been just fine
left to my own devices down in some hole of mine.
now you keep your hands where i can see 'em
and don't look me in the eye.
we got to kill, rape, and be merry for tomorrow we shall die

and we gotta hold and we gotta hold on and we gotta hold on
oh, how we're hunted.

now my sick was all a curtain, friends, and my reason was a mob
and i ate all your poisoned apples, mother. they did not do the job.
now the last thing i remember i was reaching up a dress
for a bright and shiny needle and some rope and all the rest.
now i cut such a handsome figure with my prescriptions and my dues
but i must insist on soup today for i am far too sick to chew

and we gotta hold and we gotta hold on and we gotta hold on
oh, how we're hunted.

she was a knife blade walking and she was seven miles of fuck you
and i got the business end of her pussy
while my blood soaked through a bruise.
she told me, take me in your arms and whisper: what is this control?
i said, if you hold a sharp stick to my neck and make my body cold
while a stranger stares from across the room and i can barely stand.
an hour has gone by and still he has not moved his hand.
ain't no goddamned way we're both walking out of here
and i'm certain if i don't die tonight ain't no way i'll live out the year
there ain't no hope or silence in this world of whores and rats.
he tells me, lay that boot knife on the sink and slip out of your pants.
a sharp and senile sense is borne just behind the brain.
i call it me, i call it up when mostly i'm in vain

oh, when i'm in pain, when i feel that strain, when i'm all in flame.
when i'm on a plain, when i'm sick and strained, or when i'm deranged

and we gotta hold and we gotta hold on and we gotta hold on
oh, how we're hunted.

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from Hymnal (2014), released January 29, 2014
{music &lyrics: J. Carbo}
Joey- acoust &elect guitars, vocals,, analogue synth, keyboard
Jason Spring- drums, bass

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Joey Carbo Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Joey Carbo's solo work as well as the albums he made with both his bands -
"Yes, it's dark. But Carbo isn't intending to scare folks away from darkness, I don't think he ever is -- he's no stranger to writing songs about hopelessness and anger. He's done it with precision here, communicating specific turns of emotion, sans generalization." -C.M. Hall ... more

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