Wherever I'm Gone

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WHEREVER I’M GONE

There’s a goddess of lucky coincidence
in a bar called The Wine Dark Sea
and she’s up on the ceiling fan
drinking a black-and-tan
waiting around for the moment to be
She’s got eyes like the deepest of sorrows
and a smile like the safest of harbors
and each step she takes toward the gallows
the angels all gather to guard her

And soon I will sing
and the price of my song
her I will bring
wherever I’m gone

There’s a goddess of unhappy circumstance
and I’m hoping to get her to fly
but she clings like a glove
to the worst things I love
and I’ve known her too long just to tell her goodbye
She’s got hands like the tail on a monkey
and a heart like an old Checker taxi
and she calls me her beautiful junkie
but I need her love to relax me

And soon I will sing
and the price of my song
her I will leave
wherever I’m gone

There’s an agent of cosmic deliverences
and you haven’t much room to complain
if all your ambitions, she found ‘em positions
down at the bus stop, but out of the rain
and she talks like a verse from the Bible
but she sings like a dirty old kettle
and she’s planning my latest revival
but we got an old score to settle

And now I will sing
but in spite of my song
she’ll go where she goes
wherever I’m gone

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from Ira Marlowe Songs, released September 16, 2015

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