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Big House

from Revival by American Sinner

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lyrics

Big House Blues (K. Walford/S. Sinner)
Leaves fall down on the big house15 lawn
Dungeon light shines through the cracks in the walls
Men don't go where the sun don't shine
We're living on top of the devil's fault line

Cat caught a mouse in the closet over there
Something ain't right about the black bloody hair
The boy in the corner, I still haven't met
He's been talking all day but I ain't seen him yet16

Pickles and crazy cat17 go at it again
Possums gotta leave cause they don't pay rent
They’re making rock & roll in the dungeon and now
The neighbor's blasting beach boys cause the party's too loud

Standing by the road on the city side walk
The neighbor's got a shotgun and a cinder block
Don't you touch my flowers you'll get both of them barrels
And if that don't learn ya my cinder block will

Scarecrows looking at the city streets
Not so much birds are trying to eat our seeds but you
Never know who or what's coming your way
A mile from Magnolia just off Broadway18

15 This particular 'big house' was a large 5 bedroom house that Scott and some friends (including former Blackgrass guitarist Kevin Walford) lived in at one time in Knoxville, TN. It had a very creepy unfinished basement wherein things like polio braces were found.

16 Kevin wrote this line as far as I remember, so I'd have to double check, but I always thought it had a double meaning of the haunted type things we experienced in the house (mostly later found to be possums in the walls) and the fact that a lot of random people would crash at the house all the time.

17 Roommate Mike B. had a cat with a proper name, but we all called it crazy cat because all it did was mew and walk in circles 90% of the time. He got mad when we called her that.

18 Was not a great neighborhood at the time. We did literally have scarecrows in the yard that Kevin had welded.

credits

from Revival, released January 1, 2006
written by Kevin Walford w/ Scott Sinner
guest guitar by Kevin Walford

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American Sinner is a rock n' roll stiletto switchblade dance along the edge of a knife that opens up for stabbing. They are not your run-of-the-mill musical tricksters in harlequin unitards holding bouquets of flowers behind their backs. No!...they got it all -manliness like Bowie and femininity like Tina Turner. They got it all so when these boys are randy to rock, you better let 'em. ... more

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