The Blues

By Defeater

On Travels

Released on September 16, 2008

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He found himself waiting again

Out at the crossroads, out on the lam

This time not running, this time by right

A road-side hitcher waits for headlights


"The blues, the blues

The blues won't bring me down"


That pick-up truck stopped

"Where you headed, kid?"

"Back to the boardwalk coast to fix the wrong I did"

That old man would bring him just as far as he could

His hellhound sniffing out for a trace of any good


The hope, the hope

The hope he's chasing

The blues, the blues

The blues he carried are dead and buried

“He found himself waiting again Out at the crossroads, out on the lam This time not running, this time by right A road-side hitcher waits for headlights”
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In Carrying Weight the younger brother flees across these same crossroads in a panic, trying to get far from his shame. Now he returns triumphantly, not running, but moving forward to face his fears and fix his wrongs.