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Riohacha

from Backwater by Justin Gordon

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Justin - vocal, guitars, piano
Jef Fretwell - bass
David Hampton - drums

Mystical trip to Colombia with zeb dewar

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on the warm and rainy coast
we came to search for things we lost
back in that desperate century
now they're washed out in the floods
and they're spattered with the blood
of mosquitoes, needles and disease

on the coast of old New Spain
a bleary light shines through the rain
calling both the sacred and profane
an ancient city built from stone
has breached its walls and its overgrown
with grids of concrete cutting into clay

so that city calls us in
to exploit its carnival of sin
kids and junkies running in the streets
all the while behind our backs
the vines are covering up our tracks
as the jungle sighs and shimmers in the heat

i miss the bougainvillea and the clanging of the iron
old men playing chess down in the park
but there's strange blood in my veins
and i've forgotten all the names
like phantom limbs aching in the dark

engines run on gasoline
two gum tires and a vinyl seat
and a throttle wound up as far as it'll go
we chart asphalt trajectories
we connect unknown points A to B
and we draw the maps on napkins as we go

our passports got all waterlogged
so we left them lying like two stray dogs
on the road from riohacha we got lost
but that's just how it's meant to be
buzzing through a tunnel of mango trees
in the sick sweet smell of rot and burnt exhaust

on the warm and rainy coast
we ply the air like two thin ghosts
in this good night air a man can breathe
the locusts sing our homesick song
and our yamahas hum right along
and for the moment, we are free

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from Backwater, released January 11, 2019
David Hampton - engineering

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