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Sleeping With The Devil

by Jeremy Joyce

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Sorry Babe I can't take you home This is the longest night I've known It's two fifteen and the radio Plays a sad song Blood is warm and the road is cold Jesus Christ can save your soul If you're good enough To make it to heaven But I'm not good enough you see Cause the devil he came to me Saying man you're gonna have to die unless you give me your sweet baby's life Then I remembered us as seventeen Records spinning on a record machine And I remembered us the year before Trading kisses on your daddy's floor I'm sorry darling but you should understand That I was born a selfish man And the road sings sweeter than Any kiss you gave me So I told that devil I would take his deal Away my soul that devil'd steal I'd lose your touch But I'd keep rambling on and playing Then it felt like I lost control And the car drifted off the road The smile passed from your lips I never thought it'd end like this Do you remember what I said last night When I asked you and you said alright Well I guess you'll never be my bride Cause I'm sleeping with the devil tonight.
2.
Nadine was a waitress working to pay the rent She had a kid, got some money from the government Her baby daddy weren’t nowhere around She never left her home town. Bill was from Arkansas, got in trouble with the law. Shot a man to death in a roadhouse parking lot Seven days on the run With a hot Crown Vic and a smokin’ gun Bill had a temper, he’d lose it quick Nadine could take a punch, but she wouldn’t take shit She grabbed the pistol from his side And straddled him with her Missouri thighs He ain’t felt that way before, at least not since the war He finally had something worth living for Nadine laid the Smith and Wesson down They made hot hot love on the cold ground Nadine did a little work on the side That’s how she met Arkansas Bill and went on one last ride Bill didn’t have nothing in the world Until he pulled of 29 to meet a Kansas City girl They changed cars and plates in about a dozen states They thought that they could make it last Bill kept a guitar, said he was a singer And he didn’t drive too fast They’d stake out a place for a couple of days Working on a plan Like Bill shooting Nadine with a blank And then her sneaking around back In New Mexico, Nadine played dead Laying on the floor She spots an off duty cop, reaching for his Glock to point it at Billy boy Now Nadine loved Bill more than any woman Ever loved an Arkansas man Five shots to the chest, the cop didn't have a vest And out the door they ran Bill's left three fingers were blown clean off Running for the car So they headed South for a border town To find a doctor that wouldn't talk They met up with some narcos Bought armor, C-4, and guns They'd do one last job, move to Nicaragua Then they'd never have to run They walked into the bank, dressed real nice Handed the teller a note Well that teller nearly cried by look in Bill's eyes And Nadine took off her coat She wore twenty pounds of C-4 She wore a smile ten miles wide. She wore a pretty red dress, and let out a laugh. Said I ain't afraid to die You better give me all your money You better give me all your gold If you give me any trouble I'm ready to explode
3.
Norma Jean 05:21
I was born in Louisian', way down in New Orleans and I've got a little daughter, her name is Norma Jean When my wife was pregnant, the doctor called, and said I got bad news Your child will be born with the same disease that your wife and you have too We were sick, but we were family, I had a job, and a house I owned Maybe one day, there'll be a cure, when little Norma Jean is grown Three months later, ole Katrin', ole Katrina came rolling through We lost the house, our possessions, we lost everything we knew Traveling, we were traveling, without the medicine to survive Norma Jean was born, my wife didn't make it, her body got cold, our little girl cried In the flood, lost everything, don't have no papers, no picture ID Can't get no job, can't get no welfare, can't get my daughter what she needs The milk I need, that milk costs money, I ain't got it, but I gotta try I see my wife softly pleading, each night when I close my eyes Get the things our little girl needs, go out and beg if you must I'll meet you soon, she'll keep on living, lay down your body, lay down your trust
4.
These words may never reach you, for it's to the sky I speak To the trees blowing in the winter wind from atop a jagged peak Do you remember the night I saw you in another's arms He had a look like a child, who’d been been caught doing wrong But no tears fell, no guilt showed on your face A love that's lost is a cross to bear, but a love that’s a lie is a waste. [Chorus] My heart is not a rose, growing to the sky My heart is not a brier green nor a twisted vine My heart is the flesh, scattered on the mountain side It's the red rock down below and the blood in feasting eyes I touch my chest, my heart is pounding. I touch my brow, it’s soaked with sweat. I hear a voice sounding, I close my eyes and see you yet. Oh Lord I am forsaken, and I know not if it sin But I hear the darkness calling in the blowing of the wind And through the wolf's howl in the valley down below The Flesh of the forsaken man is sweeter I suppose
5.
Coming Home 04:49
When my breath is still and my lips are cold Let the wild dogs run, let the highways moan Let my mind be quiet and freed from woe Tell my mother I'm coming home If I had another life to live If I had a dime to give I'd give my money all away Try to live true each day But if I lived it all again Would I still meet this end The end must come that I know Tell my mother I'm coming home When the sun shines on a broken dream Does the way it shines look a lot like me Does it try to hide from the blaring sun But a broken dream can't up an run So let the grass grow green in a far off land Let the cities crumble, and turn to sand Let the earth churn her flesh and bone Tell my mother I'm coming home
6.
Have you seen my lady dancing at a parade in the street Have you seen the streamers falling all beneath her dancing feet Have you heard the music playing, in a language I don’t know Have you seen my lady dancing, New York City, falling snow Have you seen my lady dancing, on wood floors in a crowd Have you seen her bright face shining through infinity black and loud Packed and pushed by amblers idled, the sweat is pouring down All at last she comes unbridled, to the pulsing of the sound Have you seen my lady dancing, at night in a dream Have you seen her two eyes shining and her hair the blackest sheen Yes, I’ve seen your lady dancing, I was sleeping and it was night Her hair was black as pitch, and the stars shone in her eyes
7.
In a little border town in the middle of the night Kneeling by her bed, with the desert in her eyes Prays Joanna soon to be the one and only Saint Where everywhere she walks, it falls the pouring rain Joanna of the falling rain, I know you feel alone Traveling from place to place, where will you call home Tonight, Joanna Joanna never stays too long in one town Everywhere she'd go, the rain was falling down When she hears the call, she finds her way there bringing skies as black as her eyes and her hair She turned twenty-one sleeping by the road Dreaming of the sun, as the thunder clouds they roll In the California sun, there lives a light haired boy Where everywhere he walks, the sun comes to destroy And every night he sleeps, he dreams of falling rain And a ribbon made of black in the hair of a lonely Saint Joanna felt the heat of the fires in the West From a medal that she wears upon her lily breast And as the smoke jumpers jump to fight the roaring blaze The boy who brought the sun, in the woods, he waits But this storm storm is like, no one has ever seen it's running East to West instead of West to East
8.
My Old Town 05:34
[Chorus] Oh take me back to my old town How I wish that it had never changed Let the memories come back to me Let the old times forever stay I kissed a girl neath the trestle I remember the taste of her sweat As a train went by, I looked into her eyes It's a kiss, I'd never forget I heard that she died in a car wreck Her boyfriend drunk at the wheel Well to know she's died, and to remember her eyes Oh lord how lonesome that feels I walk by a house I once stayed in With my cousins who taught me to fight We'd run the streets in the Philadelphia heat Throwing rocks at the train at night Now, no one I know even lives there And it looks like it's all been redone At the end of the block, I pick up a rock Oh boys, I can still run. I look out at that Navy shipyard My grandfather sailed in the war They rounded the cape, and he boxed feather-weight They don't build ships no more Now my grandfather is buried down in Florida And I don't have time to visit his grave But when I see a boat, rusty and old I think Pop, I'll meet you some day I sit me down on a bar stool And nobody drinking is a friend They all moved away, to try for better days In a house with a yard and fence My brother, he once sat beside me And God I wish he was here So I dream a dream, of the way things used to be Of them bygone and forgotten years
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[Chorus] I am rolling up a highway, to a church on a hill And I'm looking for a savior, who's not a cheap thrill Don't live in a bottle, don't look like a pill I am rolling up a highway to a church on a hill When I get there I know so loud, on the doors that the sound Wake the slumbering towns folk, and they all gather round To see the stranger with a guitar, and an old car run down Just searching for salvation at the church of the found Oh the Church of he found, the church of the found Saint Anthony won't you please come down I banged so hard and I knocked so loud That the bells in the tower of the church did sound Well Saint Anthony, he came to me Not at those doors, but in a dream And in my hand placed a silver key That would undo a lock, to set my soul free The Key was to a locket, on the neck of a boy Who was fishing with his father, feeling true joy In a boat, on a river, their lines employed My soul was in a locket on the neck of a boy

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released April 16, 2013

Sleeping With The Devil
all songs by Jeremy Joyce © 2013
By And By Music ASCAP

Recorded by David Beeman, Native Sound, Saint Louis MO, October 2012
Mixed by David Vandervelde, Pieholden, Chicago IL, December 2012
Mastered by Paul Gold, Salt Mastering, Brooklyn NY, February 2013
Produced by Jeremy Joyce and David Beeman

Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass, and Bass Synth: Jeremy Joyce
Drums, Synth, Electronic Drums, Backing Vocal (My Old Town): David Beeman
Lead Electric Guitar: Curt Brewer
Piano, Organ, and Keyboard: Nathan Jatcko
Harmony Vocals: Kristin Denis

Photo by Tuan Lee
Model: Tanis Lee Dolan

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New Orleans couldn’t offer a more appropriate musical backdrop for Jeremy Joyce, whose genre-defying songs are born out of Jeremy’s macro-level interest in music history and his micro-level interest in what makes songs tick.

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