Mark Lanegan

St. louis elegy lyrics Mark Lanegan

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St. louis elegy


I look at the sky
I see an airplane as it flies
is this the way they said jesus came?
gone through st louis
gone straightaway
and i hear the winter will cut you quick
if tears were liquor i'd have drunk myself sick

woman are you home?
a house of cards, a frame of bones
here i am earthly bound
said hallelujah i'm going down
and the river jordan is deep and wide
I think i see forever across on the other side

I look at the sky
I see a nightbird as it flies
over the old bent cherry trees
shivering in a row
down here the winter will cut you quick
these tears are liquor and I've drunk myself sick

and the dead of winter will cut you quick
these tears are liquor and i've drunk myself sick

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The lyrics ST. LOUIS ELEGY of MARK LANEGAN is also present in the album Blues funeral (2012)

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Biografia

Mark William Lanegan (1964-2022) è stato un cantautore e musicista statunitense, noto per il suo profondo timbro vocale e la sua musica dark e bluesy. Nato a Ellensburg, Washington, Lanegan iniziò la sua carriera musicale negli anni '80 come cantante del gruppo grunge Screaming Trees. Dopo lo scioglimento della band nel 1997, Lanegan intraprese una carriera da solista di grande successo, pubblicando album apprezzati dalla critica come "Whiskey for the Holy Ghost" (2006) e "Blues Funeral" (2012). La sua musica è caratterizzata da testi introspettivi e poetici che esplorano temi come la perdita, la solitudine e la spiritualità. Lanegan ha collaborato con numerosi artisti, tra cui Isobel Campbell, Greg Dulli e Duke Garwood. Alcuni dei suoi brani più rappresentativi includono "The Gravedigger's Song", "Methamphetamine Blues" e "Hold On".

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