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Tell Yourself It's Only The Weather

by Shoeshine Blue

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By the light of the morning when you open your eyes there's people waitin' on a loan and it's no surprise now if you get the chills there's frost on the windows, rust on the bills dry as the desert green as the hills there's wood in the whiskey and fire in the pills now hold yourself together tell yourself it's only the weather there's money to the north borders to the south the great migration of hand to mouth we're spendin' money with the mobs harder to do when your loosing your job.
2.
It's 3 O'clock in the morning there's a pain that wells inside does it call you by your first name, Clementine does it burn like a candle does it sacrifice like wine you let a pretty little folk song do you everytime all my stories end in warnings bored to death of feeling blue all possessions end in nothing all I ever had was you the currency of devotion don't spend like a nickel or dime it buries itself in a budget of passing time so if you loose your companion to a debt you cannot pay remember that your lover owes the same all my stories end in warnings bored to death of feeling blue all possessions end in nothing all I ever had was you the universe is expanding but here's the thing about space and time you can glue the whole thing together one fool at a time
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meet me in the tall grass I'll lay you in the darkest pines all I see are contrasting lines in the valentines only with the light off only with the light off only with the light off will you see me only with the light off marry me the mountain divorce me from the low low tide every single wave that we ride is calm inside only with the light off only with the light off only with the light off will you see me only with the light off
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Thunderhead 02:34
work all day but it's never enough car breaks down, gotta take the bus oh no are you gonna make it there on time to the bus stop baby falling in love on company time girl, you know my love don't cost a dime are we gonna walk, are we gonna run into a thunderhead thunderhead? smokestacks burn till the summers freeze don't you know that grass don't grow on trees if we don't stay, well who's gonna save our muddy river baby and if we ever run out of gasoline we'll have to get by on our own steam is it gonna burn is it gonna turn us back in time baby a thunderhead?
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we both looked our best in the windswept west we were younger neither death nor bottle of wine could tame our souls you never slow down when you're filled with the hunger but love won't stick if you're always letting go if the memory starts to fade light a candle it's ok to howl at a crescent moon when that shifty old love was more than you could handle it's ok to sleep through the afternoon the weather turns again and the sun calms her down and the stars reveal no curse for stones don't throw themselves all of us got our own bones to bury no one has ever walked a perfect line we're mining for coal and working without a canary and all I want, babe, is your little hand in mine and the weather turns again and the sun calms her down and the stars reveal no curse for stones don't throw themselves you're everything you say you're everything you do if the weather turns again I'll be coming back to you

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UPCOMING SHOWS:

FEBRUARY 16th @ AL'S DEN (Portland) 7:00, free

MARCH 24th @ ALBERTA STREET PUB (Portland) W/ Folded Forest and Denim Wedding

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released June 19, 2012

“Imagine a lovely ghost singing at an old bluesman’s funeral.”

-Amy Mccullough (Willamette Week)

“Encountering Shoeshine Blue for the first time is like fiddling with the radio dial while driving through the heartland of America……’Talk Real Slow’ and the band’s 2004 EP ‘Sometimes Through The Static’ are homespun amalgamations of restless living room folk and hot-blooded blues.”

Anika Sabin (Willamette Week)

The rootsy tunes of Shoeshine Blue sound as timeless as the best and most authentic Americana, featuring grave digging acoustic guitar, rail-yard harmonica, loping upright bass, Whiskeytown harmonies, and some mournful violin playing from drummer Shaw McLain. However, the lyrics of native Missourian Michael Apinyakul are fully immersed in the here and now. In a cautious Willy Vlautin-like murmer, he mentions crummy jobs, digital zeros and ones, meth labs, and Portland bus routes, in songs that deal with fragility and frustration of connecting with other human beings.”

-Ned Lannamann (Portland Mercury)

PHOTOS BY ERIN BERZEL

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Shoeshine Blue Wichita, Kansas

Lo-fi, literary, blues, folk, and a little fuzz. Shoeshine Blue is songwriter, Michael Apinyakul, and a talented ship of pirates who follow him into the great sea of song. Soulful folk for soulful folks.

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