Earle's Lament

Song Description

A bad man is preparing to commit suicide in a Motel room in Mississipi after killing a girl in Oklahoma. Verses are seperated by a crazy yodel.

Song Length 3:02 Genre Rock - Roots/Rock n' Roll, Folk - Rock
Tempo Medium (111 - 130) Lead Vocal Male Vocal
Mood Gloomy, Disturbed Subject Murder, Rape, Suicide
Similar Artists Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan Language English
Era 2000 and later

Lyrics

In a motel room in Mississippi
sits a man in a bed
Loaded gun and sippin' whiskey
and a life he can't defend
He killed a girl in Oklahoma
just because she wouldn't do
all the things a woman wearing
that little dress aught to do

He was born in a trailer
and that was where he spent his youth
He tried to take Jesus as Savior
but he couldn't see the use
In '68 he joined the army
to become a man
In '69, came home to hatred
'cause he killed in Vietnam

So there he sits recalling history
wondering when the Devil came,
emptied his heart, filled it with hatred
and a killer's shame

Lyrics Matt Aquiine Music Matt Aquiline
Producer Matt Aquiline Performance Matt Aquiline
Label Kid Goat Records

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