Portrait
from Desert Tortoise by Matt Zeltzer
lyrics
Blown away by the streets,
even branches have no home
Slow collapsing paper mills loom giant
Billiard balls drift slowly to sleep,
Wonderlusting waitress sings herself to sleep
All the air drawn out into a cool beginning.
Throw your shoes in the back of the truck,
Its time to go, don’t pray for luck,
It’s a lonesome road when you’re running from your fate
Pallid as the midnight heat,
the innkeeper hounds her clock
Vaccuums blare into the deadly silence
Calling into the desert sky
It’s a golden, desperate lullaby
You’re only a victim if you can’t help yourself
Ive been sweatin’ through my teeth
Breathin’ through a sheet- I can’t take it
I’ve been kicked around and left for dead
I might not be ahead, but I’m not finished
As the branches turn to the east,
each one bows before the other
Rustling slow in the lightless border town.
Juanita tugging at her golden chain
Searching for a portrait in an empty frame
All the air drawn out into a cool beginning
Feather broken – lying in the dirt— ain’t no dying bird
Its only a portrait and it will fade in time
even branches have no home
Slow collapsing paper mills loom giant
Billiard balls drift slowly to sleep,
Wonderlusting waitress sings herself to sleep
All the air drawn out into a cool beginning.
Throw your shoes in the back of the truck,
Its time to go, don’t pray for luck,
It’s a lonesome road when you’re running from your fate
Pallid as the midnight heat,
the innkeeper hounds her clock
Vaccuums blare into the deadly silence
Calling into the desert sky
It’s a golden, desperate lullaby
You’re only a victim if you can’t help yourself
Ive been sweatin’ through my teeth
Breathin’ through a sheet- I can’t take it
I’ve been kicked around and left for dead
I might not be ahead, but I’m not finished
As the branches turn to the east,
each one bows before the other
Rustling slow in the lightless border town.
Juanita tugging at her golden chain
Searching for a portrait in an empty frame
All the air drawn out into a cool beginning
Feather broken – lying in the dirt— ain’t no dying bird
Its only a portrait and it will fade in time
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Desert Tortoise,
released 30 September 2011
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Roots-rock songwriter Matt Zeltzer releases his new EP “Desert Tortoise” at Zoey’s Café in Ventura Saturday, Sept 30th. ... more Produced by Joe Baugh (Rey Fresco, Delaney Gibson, Marquee), Zeltzer enlisted the help of local heavyweights Sam Bolle (Dick Dale, Todd Hannigan), Bill Flores (Jeff Bridges), and Chris Stites to bring “Desert Tortoise” to life. less
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