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"Red"

by Echo Bloom

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1.
Leaving Charleston 04:06
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--- Leaving Charleston --- Written by Kyle Evans Evelyn's daddy was a son of a bitch he was an alcoholic and he beat the kids so we swore we'd leave the day she turned 15 borrowed her sister's car and pointed it west thinking anywhere was better than the place we left and the note we left her parents only said We're riding towards the sun Leaving Charleston Me and her were done with everything We will try baby try to do the best we can and we will ride baby ride into the promised land Lived in that beater for a couple of weeks and we took some dirty pictures for some food to eat it was bad but it was better than before Every evening I would lie there awake watching how the streetlights hit her face and I'd fall asleep against her shoulderblade Rising with the sun Out of Charleston Me and her were done with everything We will try baby try to do the best we can and we will ride baby ride into the promised land Sold off the car to try make our ends meet Evie spent her nights working on the streets And we moved into a Greyhound terminal Every tomorrow could be better I think when she wanders back and is next to me I just hold her close and whisper in her ear Forget about the sun We're out of Charleston Me and her were done with everything We will try baby try to do the best we can and we will ride baby ride into the promised land
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Operator 03:50
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--- Operator --- It's been seven months since I heard my baby on the phone Cradling the receiver listening to the dialtone Operator get me Caroline I gotta talk with my baby tonight I promised her that it would be all right Operator get me Caroline Every bone in my body wants to only be with you But I get no answer just the answer ing machine Operator get me Caroline I gotta talk with my baby tonight I promised her that it would be all right Operator get me Caroline Oh my darling Carrie you're so very far from me Oh my darling Carrie only sixteen months old Operator get me Caroline I gotta talk with my baby tonight I promised everything would be all right Operator get me Caroline
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Evangeline 04:28
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--- Evangeline --- Morning's wasted on the picture on the wall that slowly reappears the moments after dawn Every day I see you looking back at me at the boy I am and the man I couldn't be 15 years I swung that hammer Baby all I had was time Evangeline, tell me it all was just a dream You won't believe what all the time has done to me The man you loved so long ago's all torn and faded and there's nothing left inside of him not full of hatred but let's make the best of what is left I'm violent and I'm sad they took the best years that I had and left an empty shell they picked off like a scab I'm a child at 34 mopping up some liquor store lying awake at night afraid of dying alone 15 years I swung that hammer Baby all I had was time Evangeline, tell me it all was just a dream You won't believe what all the time has done to me That afternoon you married me in that grove of pine trees in my darkest hours that memory was all that saved me so let's make the best of what is left Evangeline, tell me it all was just a dream You won't believe what all the time has done to me If you've moved along I'd never think you less a person but your heart still has a place for me of that I'm certain so let's make the best of what is left
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Willingham 04:13
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Another Rose 04:01
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--- Willingham --- It was over like that burnt the house to the ground two days 'til Christmas in a faraway town They found him there on the curb covered in soot 'sterically screaming that the fire had took his 3 little girls turned to ash in his hands These are the ways that you bury a man These are the ways The pieces didn't add up they said he showed no remorse/regret/wasn't sad enough They hauled the man in and manufactured a story They said he tucked 'em all in and barricaded the doors and squirted some lighter fluid over the floor Stood on the sidewalk like a piece of white trash and let the house burn into cinders and ash These are the ways The D.A. laid it all out he'd had a pitiful life a cracker mechanic who would beat up his wife Saved his piece of shit car instead of rescuing his kids only the highest of punishments for what he had did These are the ways that justice pays for the truth (that we interpret the truth) an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth These are the ways In a faraway town I think of him then Hysterically screaming as the needle goes in And then all you can hear is the beat of his chest gradually slowing with each shallower breath These are the ways you make a dog of a man The blood in the water is on all of our hands
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Texas Two 03:51
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--- The Texas Two --- We met in a juvie hall in April, 1983 Billy Joe was beautiful all dirty blonde and tattered jeans We were dumb and perfect just a greasy pair of Indians dreaming of the life we had to lead We lived in a halfway house in August when we got released At 10 when all the lights went out I'd spend the night beneath his wings I'd hold him 'til the morning came he'd hold me 'til he fell asleep wake up cradled in each other's arms We loved life and outlaws and each other more than anything than either of us thought we could than either of us could believe But every love is different than (from) the one before - some settle down, some say they'll become the Texas Two Billy was the muscle and the heart behind the enterprise I made the plan the night before my head against his sleeping thigh he took out the rent-a-cop but when I heard the sirens ring we ran without a dollar to our names We went to a motel in the next town with a case of beer hid out shooting Polaroids him mugging in the bathroom mirror stayed up reading newspapers combing through the crime reports for any mention of the Texas Two Nothing much in my life ever made much sense, Love and guns and violence were all I ever really knew of happiness But neither of us wanted to grow old like this, but living life together was the only thing we'd need We stayed in the hideaway for several days just waiting for the heat to pass until we heard a knock upon the motel door The voice outside assured us that they had the place surrounded and to lay down and surrender to the law As we heard the door break in I froze and looked in Billy's eyes all I saw was love and fear and lips slowly begin to smile and taking out a pistol he just started shooting everywhere first and last stand of the Texas Two Bleeding on the floor I thought that nothing much had really changed I was still a coward and my Billy was still dumb and brave As I slowly drifted off I reached for him and held his hand and watched the fire die behind his eyes
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Revenge 06:05
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--- Revenge --- I woke up in a roadside Holiday Inn beneath a dusty ceiling fan got out of bed and stretched my aching legs and washed the night off of my hands I counted 1, 2, 3, 4, bruises on my knuckles and appreciated the pain and watched the dirt and mud and blood and sin swirling slowly down the drain And if you ask me why I did it I will answer with a grin it was revenge He was a child molester and he lived alone in a cabin out by the lake and everybody knew it but a'nobody could prove it so we decided to set him straight I thought of it as some community service a bullet would do the trick but it'd be way too loud and it'd be way too messy and it'd be over way too quick And if you ask me why I did it I will answer with a grin it was revenge Rolled the window down in my El Dorado for some fresh air on my face and in the seat beside me there's a rope and a hammer and a soggy old suitcase and I beat the rhythm of Waylon Jennings on the cracking steering wheel singing right there with me "I just can't help the way that I don't feel" And if you ask me why I did it I will answer with a grin it was revenge I pulled up to my cousin's funeral parlor in the middle of the night and we dragged the suitcase to the basement furnace and we threw it all inside And I watched it burning through a little window 'til it melted all away and then we went upstairs to eat an early breakfast and get ready for the day And if you ask me why I did it I will answer with a grin it was revenge
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Cytnhia´s Song 02:56
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In Orbit 05:05
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--- In Orbit --- Baby from this ferris wheel our sleeping city's lit up like a Christmas tree from blinking TV's playing out old reruns to the night We will drive the Aerostar back home from memory and fall asleep to TV shows just now beginning never wanting nothing more But hey, though we're orbiting round seems like we only head towards the ground OK - we'll start a new verse but instead of just falling the wheel will reverse We could drive the car all night to Motor City and find another ferris wheel and set it spinning and watch while Detroit echos and blooms But hey, though we're orbiting round seems like we only head towards the ground OK - we'll start a new verse but instead of just falling the wheel will reverse I don't want to live my life alone and jaded thinking love turns people old all worn and faded never wanting nothing more But hey, though we're orbiting round seems like we only head towards the ground OK - we'll start a new verse but instead of just falling the wheel will reverse
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The Businessman 06:11
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--- The Businessman --- Elevator elevator take me to the 22nd floor Take me through this quiet building, slowly pause and open up the door Dying in American suburbia for supervisor’s pay 18 years spent working for the government in Washington Dee Cee Every day another stream of car, work, sleep, reeee peeeeeet Huddled with a phone receiver whispering to an answering machine Don't wait up for me, you'll feel better in the morning if you sleep Amy disagrees, but she drifts off anyway and waits to dream Distantly the echoes of explosions bring our businessman around Washington's a smoldering ruin, a siren is the only other sound Walking calmly back inside he switches on the radio to hear Don't wait up for me, you'll feel better in the morning if you sleep Amy disagrees, but she drifts off anyway and waits to dream My family albums filled with pictures looking back at me, I've found I'm ready for the sea Elevator elevator take me to the parking garage door Take me to the beach and find the businessman all lined up down the shore Ankle-deep in quiet water holding out their flashlights to the sea Don't wait up for me, you'll feel better in the morning if you sleep Amy disagrees, but she drifts off anyway and waits to dream
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Country Operator 03:05
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Appalachian Mutation 02:56
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RED, the second album in Echo Bloom's Colors trilogy, finds the band wrapping their songs around a core of country and rock, combining feedback-drenched guitars and thundering drums with orchestral strings and banjo into a unique mixture that's equal parts Tom Petty and My Bloody Valentine.
Echo Bloom, led by Kyle Evans, has become a road-hardened group after the release of their 2015 record Blue, which No Depression magazine described as "a masterpiece (Lee Zimmerman)„. The band embarked on several extensive tours that brought them across Europe and the US, getting the band into a tight recording unit.

After bouncing between Washington DC, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, Kyle Evans eventually caught the muse he was searching for in Berlin. Completely submerged in the German culture, Evans found inspiration in dusty libraries along the Spree and long, quiet bike rides through the city. He holed up in an apartment and woodshedded for months, the seclusion allowing him the perfect environment to completely focus on his work. After a few months, he left Germany with material for three records. Because each album seemed to fit into slightly different genres, Evans began thinking about them as different seasons, different countries and finally, different colors. 'Blue' would be the more folk-oriented of the group, 'Red' would be more country rock, and 'Green' would be more classic pop.
Today the quartet adds Aviva Jaye on alto vocals and piano, Jason Mattis on bass, and Cody Rahn on percussions.

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released January 29, 2016

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