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Let Those Demons Rest

by Ginger Bug

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1.
Vagabond Will you share your fire? Vagabond Please share your fire And I'll play for you For a little while And when I'm gone That highway's mine When I say goodbye That highway's mine Just a road under my feet And a river by my side There was a time I think I knew your name There was a time I think I knew your name Back when the road and the river Were one and the same And when I'm gone That highway's mine When I say goodbye That highway's mine Just a road under my feet And a river by my side You can bathe And you can eat You can bathe And you can eat As you walk All the way down to the sea As you walk All the way down to the sea As you walk All the way down to the sea
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Sickbed 03:34
Hold my candle I'm a shaky flame Darling, I know you'll love me just the same Blue and red I'm burning in my new sickbed Do you like the tune that's running around my head? Put your ear to my chest Try to hear what I'm confessing We got hearts of stone And no minds of our own Hold my candle There's visions dancing on my wall Darling, your shadow seems so long and tall It's you and I On the waves of this lullaby Cross my heart, I hope to die Put your ear to my chest Try to hear what I'm confessing We got hearts of stone And no minds of our own We got hearts of stone And no minds of our own We got hearts of stone We got no minds of our own We got hearts of stone And no minds of our own We got hearts of stone We got no minds of our own
3.
North Child 03:09
As a boy I spent some time In the breezy mountains of Caroline But a northern child is a northern child And he's always north bound after a while Because a north child don't feel at home Not without those cobblestones That your dear old great granddaddy laid Not without the cold drizzling rain Ain't you got love left for Caroline? Ain't you got love left for Caroline? In the field I was a fine young man A southern belle, she held my hand She said "wanderer, please won't you stay a while?" Though I'm a wandering man Darling, I'm a northern child Ain't you got love left for Caroline? Ain't you got love left for Caroline? I tried to fight but I could not stand Don't a boy need someone to hold his hand? Come now reflection, you don't need to grin It ain't no fight you're ever gonna win Ain't you got love left for Caroline? Ain't you got love left for Caroline? Ain't you got love left for Caroline? Ain't you got love left for Caroline?
4.
If she Could see me working Would she know I love her still Or should I tell her The first time I saw her My heart pounded Broke my will? Throw down, throw down Throw down the hammer on the concrete ground And if I make a dollar by the sweating on my collar I'm gonna take out my Maggie on the town My hands burn My fingers blister But I'll never draw the line Because only she Can cool the blood That's boiling This heart of mine. Throw down, throw down Throw down the hammer on the concrete ground And if I make a dollar by the sweating on my collar I'm gonna take out my Maggie on the town I once knew her When I was younger In the evening light Of some summer dance She said one Must love another Both with a heart And with a hand So I keep on Throwing down, throw down Throw down the hammer on the concrete ground And if I make a dollar by the sweating on my collar I'm gonna take out my Maggie on the town Throw down Throw down the hammer on the concrete ground And if I make a dollar by the sweating on my collar I'm gonna take out my Maggie on the town Throw down Throw down
5.
Walk a mile in my boots With your toes all turning black Try living another month Out of the pack upon your back With a gun tied to your shoulder Resting in your hands You may feel what it's like But you sure won't understand Redemption on my mind The question as to how I feel it my bones A laughter haunts me now Haunts me now It's resting in my hands Well I feel what it's like But I sure don't understand Oh Satan did you laugh When that old curtain tore? Or when that sky turned turned black Or when that soldier swore? He said goddamn You may feel what is like But you sure won't understand
6.
Maggie says she's walking alone On the road through the wilderness she's going A good forty days Maggie says she met some evil there As she hides her frostbit fingers in her hair Says it's how she prays Ain't it always in the corner of your mind? The ghost-like face of something divine? Who can say what's fact or fiction? Who really has conviction? Walk on down out of the wilderness Well I followed her down and I almost died From having nothing to eat and no place to hide From a burning sun And I strayed off the road When I took a little shelter in an evil home Now I'm the lonely one Ain't it always in the corner of your soul? Sometimes broke, sometimes whole? Who can say that we'll part friends? I will say it all depends On if it's stone or sand we built the past upon Maggie says if her heart is still warm When temptation fades and the evil moves on She'll come and see me again Now I'm watching a figure walking my way And Maggie's just a memory fading away In the back of my brain Ain't it always in the corner of your mind? The ghost-like face of something divine? Who can say what's fact or fiction? Who really has conviction? Walk on down out of the wilderness
7.
Bloody Thief 04:51
Well it came down the line Put your soul in a bind All the prison and religion On your mind And no-one ever tried To put you to sleep For any words in a voice Dark and deep But you can let those demons rest Leave it to me Well I'll do my best Because I know who you are And who you're talking to A bloody thief crying on a cross And we left a few women Crying by the door What you stole in those days It don't matter anymore Because a thief he turns poet When the nails go through Well you told it God Now I'm telling you That you can let those demons rest Leave it to me Well I'll do my best Because I know who you are And who you're talking to A bloody thief crying on a cross Well I was fourteen When I strummed my first chord Seventeen said goodbye To my lord Then I got me a wife And a baby boy Who lets a thief have a life To enjoy? But we can let those demons rest Leave it to someone Who's gonna try their best Because I know who you are And who you're talking to Na na na na na...
8.
There's cool clear water From the mountaing spring Way off in the sunshine Where the river begins I wanna go there I wanna drink that fountain dry Before I swim on down the river Of all those tears I cry I slept out on a mountain Way under the moon I swear by the starlight I'll be home soon You got all my promises You know my heart won't lie I'll meet you down the muddy river At the place we use to lie Yes I will There's blood in the water It flows through the earth Drained from an altar Tell me what is a dreamer worth I use to go fishing The grass was soft and cool beneath my knees Now I'm kneeling by the holy water Bless me if you please Said I'm kneeling by the holy water Bless me if you please
9.
Hey now my love Do you remember the time When I made my pretensions clear? I tripped right over the jukebox and I Baptized myself in a beer And the bottle got smashed And my heart abashed You'd seen the nature of my ploy That I really did care As a slick-back-haired- Black-jacket-wearing little boy Hey now my love Do you remember the time When the sky fell just like a dream? You and me tripping through the snowfall trading Sips from a bottle of Beam And the floodlamp light Shining in the night On the cold brick wall wear we hid One two hearts calling Fat snowflakes falling On a couple of crazy kids Hey now my love Do you remember the time When I asked if you would marry me? I had no ring And I did not think To get down upon one knee In the dim lobby glow It was about time to go You smiled like a movie scene And the cold concrete Hard beneath our feet And the hum of one soda pop machine Hey now my love Hey now my love

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released February 27, 2017

Songs by R.E. Torrey.
Artwork by P. Torrey.

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Ginger Bug Ellington, Connecticut

Conceived in a basement in north central Connecticut, Ginger Bug is an all-original indie rock trio devoted to stark, vivid storytelling. Prolific singer songwriter Reuben Torrey spins tales of latent sorrow, forgotten places, and the indomitable human spirit. With Jesey Meche on drums and Dr. E on bass, Ginger Bug’s songs captivate with rootsy grooves and an undeniable crowd-drawing energy. ... more

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