Old Man Luedecke - Mole In The Ground

The Cable Blues

Hey, see me fishing at the break of day
Don't even know who that is, sleeping in my bed all day

My mamma said, early bird got it made
But it's the fox in the night time gettin' what the hens has laid

They took my cable away
Everyone's so damn concerned that my bills are paid

First day of Fall

On the first day of fall was at the shopping mall
Was a normal Saturday
Standing with my mum and a friend who had come
Thought it was better than playing

Through the atrium a ray of light did come
Somehow we all heard it say:

When will you be stopping, your stupid life of shopping
You know there's a better way
The bad guys don't start burning until you get to learning
To live within your pay
Through the atrium a ray of light did come and that's all
We heard it say

We shook and shook our heads and clutching our new threads
Found ourselves making our way
In the parking lot there were pillars of salt
And the bearded guy from footlocker getting away

Said it couldn't be much worse, than Sodom and it's curse
At the Fairview Mall on a Saturday

One Time in Rome

One time in Rome, was far from home
When I spied the gypsy gal on the road
We were on the same road
I wasn’t paying much mind, just watching her skirts and stepping in time

But her soft proud step, got me thinking yet
Started dreaming of the pretty girls I know
But they’re all at home
In her raven black hair, a boy could whisper all his cares

She slowed and close, turned and offered a rose
And those black, black eyes tore open my soul
Was in a warm dark hole
Now I’m not a fan of flowers, but I tell you friends I’m completely in her power

I stood there stunned, had to jump or run
Then she smiled a little smile to say she knowed
We were on the same road
And she stuck out her tongue, as she laughed when my wallet come undone

As she skipped away, heard her jewelry play
But when she glanced back over her bare shoulder
I became a bit older
Oh those black, black eyes belong to a girl who’ll never be mine

Sugarman

At evening time, the sky’s the colour of her eyes
And I am lost in lies
She’s more than just a friend, she comes crawling back again
And in her eyes I live and die
When I drink it never ends but the tension bends and bends
A dance some cruel fate sends

We live in, webs our hearts spin and that our minds untie
And the wind blows in, things that haven’t been
You are lost to me again

With my whiskey boiled eyes, I dream of your soft thighs
And how through Quebec we did ride
It’s not all my fault these dangerous somersaults
Your boyfriend is mean but he cries

And I probably did lie, when my soul ran to hide
When you gave me all and then denied
Could you even stay, if he wasn’t in our way?
Our hearts cash cheques our minds would save
I love the silver on your hands and the way you wreck my plans and think that I’m your sugarman

Yodelady - Grandpa burger?

We were camping we were boiling up the beans
Making coffee with the water of the stream and
We slept outside and we slept inside too and for
So many nights of sleeping, I only want to sleep with you

You came dancing, through the landscape of my sleep
When you asked me, what if I’m the one you’ll wed
I tried to kiss you, but I got drunk instead

You broke my loneliness when you came to me and cried
Man I’d never think that you could e’re be shy
And you broke me like an egg over the hills and valleys
Folks I was the yolk of love scattered and brilliant on the trees

Spoons at Kate’s

I’m here watching ceiling fans turn in spoons at Kate’s
There’s half a foot of mud outside but that’s not why you’re late
Last night before we went to bed under a moon of self hate
You sang and wailed your lies, your self-annihilating cries
I saw green curtains on your eyes and took your fear of fate

Bought and bit into your fear like devils in my bread
Devils in my love for you, devils in my bed
Oh the twisted truth of things how the heart can sink like lead
I made a sadder thing of sad and our love just bled and bled

Tried to be a safer place a tree that you’d climb
An electric blanket, a cup of tea a glint in a dark mine
But as you slipped down that slope I knew that I was just frayed rope
With my own fears I barely cope, we were at the mercy of time

But it was just an hour or two of black in the torn open heart of night
We picked and ripped over the scraps till darkness brought back light
So if you need to sleep my love as the rain falls gently down
I’ll just sit and pray as the ceiling fans go round.

Little Stream of Whiskey

I followed a little stream of whiskey to your door
I stand here wondering if there’s more
Would you make me a pallet on your floor
Been down, been down for nothing at all
Got no kind of nothing at all, and nothing ain’t nothing at all

Saw a picture of white sand, with a woman and a man
Walking hand in hand into the sea
I didn’t want to be that man, wanted to be that white sand
The burning edge of Eden land, be pure geography
With uncountable pieces of me.