Purse Strings (Penance Gate - Live)

from The Chalice by Highlife

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When I go out path fit to the shops
I mix my numbers up watching out for the cops
While you're waiting in line for word on the government houses
They're propping up the wall, hoping their stock never drops.

Swamped by the wind
See the divide
Called back to when?
To the back of the leap in the firing line
But before I think
To summon the usual devices
Suffer the love of a leaf through the mind
Cold in New Orleans tonight...

Don't call it by it's name
Or drag us through the same old shame that you live in
It's really bad but you make it worse
When you reckless roll your life into a curse
A strange thing when shame sings
That same sting hot on your skin
Pulling at your purse strings.

Oh one the mistake of you
Is a habit formed when you're willing to
Lucked out with your buckshot teeth
Either mind the gap or just let her sleep
Hence forth you're a wily cat
While the dogs pay pigs just to watch their back
Since day you're a gully boy
And the duppy man know to show no ploy

Up to the bumper
Swoon daggerin' and wind away
True that you wine her
Out on the floor you skank and sway
And the front door is heaving
The ropes are in shreds:
Your penance gate
If you're known in the doorway
If you're known on the door you won't have to wait
But when you're living in the heart where it's hot
When you're living in the heart where it's hot...

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from The Chalice, released October 17, 2019
"Purse Strings (Penance Gate)" written, performed, recorded, mixed and mastered by "Sleepy" Doug Shaw.

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HIGHLIFE is the moniker of London born Singer, Guitarist, Songwriter "Sleepy” Doug Shaw a member of Gang Gang Dance, formerly of White Magic, Janka Nabay (R.I.P.). Shaw has contributed to albums of Cass McCombs, Eric Copeland and has toured and shared the stage around the world with Lou Reed, Lee Scratch Perry, Animal Collective, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Michael Hurley, Bert Jansch, Black Dice, etc ... more

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