El Alamein Blues

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El Alamein Blues

A sickle moon is out tonight
The bodies in the firelight
Are smashed as the pension allows

The shadows off the fire
Rock the bones of a building block
Nothing else has moved for hours

The bottom of the bottle
Says the sun’s gone down
The evening has long been sold

The battles are forgotten
The dead stay dead
And these that are left grow old

The charismatic’s screaming
At the veterans bleeding
On the corner how they’ve got to be saved

The palaces are pumping
At the rubbernecks
C’mon, you’re so beautiful, rich and depraved

The barbie-dolls are earning
What they need to buy the anaesthetic
Needed to remove another face

As I go steppin’ out
Get a view, breath air
Look a news headline in the face

Up above the station house the children cruise
The El Alamein Fountain in their one’s and two’s
It’s early in the week
The hit parade is sleeping off
The day’s El Alamein Blues

A moving line of Japanese
And Americans with heart disease
Are targets from the bus to the bar

They step around the one man
One leg band
Pissing out from under his guitar

Somebody hit some trouble
With the banks the other day
Now I read about someone’s in a jam

Well you win the daily double
Then it goes the other way
You know its hard for me to say I give a damn

Everybody’s selling everything that crawls
Cashing in the fakes from off the family walls
Gold for forgeries
Sold behind the mortuary
To pay for the El Alamein Blues

And up above the station house the children cruise
The El Alamein Fountain in their one’s and two’s
Its early in the week
All the world is sleeping off
The day’s El Alamein Blues.

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from Ruby, released January 30, 2017

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