If I Never Get To Vegas

from AA-BLACKMOON by Andy Smash & the Rust Belt Hotrods

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Dig me a hole and bury me deep
Ship me off to heaven with no shoes for my feet
Build me an altar on a dead-end street
And pray the Lord my soul to keep

Place my bones in a box of steel
Play my elegy on the reel-to-reel
Drink all the liquor you can find to steal*
Do what you gotta do to get by

'Cause I won't get away
I won't get away
If I never get to Vegas, carry my dreams away

I won't get away
No I won't get away
If I never get to Vegas, carry my dreams away

Bottled up dreams and a big, black car
Old tube amps and a cheap guitar
A killer sense of rhythm that never got far
Fading light from a dying star

Long list of bills that never got paid
Full set of songs that I never played
Arms wide open for my judgement day
I lay it all down on the head

'Cause I won't get away
I won't get away
If I never get to Vegas, carry my dreams away

I won't get away
No I won't get away
If I never get to Vegas, carry my dreams away

Trash my cars and sell the hot rod parts
Give away whatever that I forgot
Pick up the pieces of your broken heart
And tie them up in a lover's knot

Black Stone Heart on the cassette tape
My ashes with the cat by the fireplace
Sun comes up & it's another day
I done everything I could do.

'Cause I won't get away
I won't get away
If I never get to Vegas, carry my dreams away

I won't get away
No I won't get away
If I never get to Vegas, carry my dreams away.

Dig me a hole and bury me deep
Ship me off to heaven with no shoes for my feet
Build me an altar on a dead-end street
Do what you gotta do to get by.

*don't take this as actual advice pls. That sort of thing never ends well.

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from AA-BLACKMOON, released October 29, 2020
Song by Andy. Performed by the Rust Belt Hotrods.

© ℗ 2020 Andrew R. DeLapp

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