Brett Matney - Shady Side Of The Sun Lyrics

      

Shady Side of the Sun
by Brett Matney

The gaunt green light brightly blinks
While the sky over the sea slowly shrinks
Over ships in the distance tiredly passing free
The paper and the ink wet from last night's weep
Wallowing through imagined drinks and real dreams
The ghost of a woman in a gown remotely following
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 Late one night he laid awake as he dreamed
He looked at the carnival, across the cotton field
Wishing they never crossed and lеt the faces grow cold
They rеsted and leaned, until the strength just broke
He ran through rolling hills, while his sleeves grew old
Between spaces of memory, as it stayed ahead like a shadow
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 He tumbled his way into lowlands lounge
The arrow pierced through, into some highly sound
He had the highway in his eyes, ready to play some blues
No one was still around, not even robbers of the tomb
Someone’s killed in town, blood’s on the shoes
Some say they both died, with it all depending on your view
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 I buried an axe and laid down to die above
Then awoke in a well lit place rid of lust
She came along and pulled the table cloth straight
Brushed off the dust, scraped the rust away
Said I looked like someone she trusted one day
And we loved the very same one just in different ways
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 He stayed in their loft above the general store
Sleeping with stones in his bed and sand on the door
Left the shore, stood on the interstate outlining the wilderness
Echoes of manors or roads howl in his head
The past never stayed the past, not where you’d expect
He waited for awhile until the law ran through its course
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 She stuck by a bunch of life sized parasites
And one night they'd all gone and sucked her dry
So she made her way up on the barren boulevard
While he walked the line and waltzed the Mardi Gras
She was wearing her gown made of stripes and stars
And wrapped up her scarf then walked the wild side
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 He was no king and I was no saint
Somewhere out there, I'd close my eyes and spot her face
Turned his face from the sun so the heat won’t drive him insane
Saw miles down the way, where all she did was fair
Wondering how I remain, if the pay was worth the fare
Thinking of when we said "there’s so much I wish I could say"
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 Street bound faces told them there's nowhere they'd get
Never approved of the car he rode, or places it went
He squeezed the lemon in neglect til the juice trickled to his foot
Once nothing was left, they took to writing of the book
Some memories would rest but some had just stuck
Vowing to speak again the night that judgement day came afoot
Looking for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear

 Now I'm running with a hellhound on my tail
Getting back to where I knew, crossing the same old rails
Trying to keep clear out of the loop of the hangman’s noose
I ran out on bail, to find those faces that I knew
Fell off the trail, chased past purgatory too
Yesterday's in the grave, today and tomorrow are there as well
As I look for the shady side of the sun, praying the master will hear