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Pictures of the Highway

from Pictures of the Highway by Marc Black

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Every song along this bumpy road is like a photo, a still photo, a snapshot taken along the highway

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I've got pictures of the highway all along my walls
My friends you can have them all

Closet filled with clothes good for downtown shows
And I'm giving them all away

Friends who pick me up and let me down
You notice you've got learn to live alone

Some kind big old car growin' weeds 'round in the yard
And I'm learnin' how to walk

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That's where you find me
Out in the open singing you a song
Where you find me
Sayin' a prayer we move on

Hammer board and nails, look like somthin' to do
And the joy run through my veins

Gonna build myself a cabin, lord up the side of your mountain
With the stream run by my door

In the morning check the chickens, don't forget to slip your clothes on
And give a wink to the shining sun

People once were dreamers, those dreams became their masters
And now we all must move on

CHORUS

Once I was younger, involved with a woman
And I treated her just like a child

Confusion was the order, sorrow was the outcome
And I nearly came undone

But the traces in these side walls, Lead on on on straight on to my eyes
And I show you where I've been

So if we meet sometime tomorrow and I'm a little bit off balance or impatient
I just don't want to slip back into that scene

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Just like a train that fell of the track, like someone who never wrote back
You can fall right down on your knees and cryin'

And I am weavin' a web...lookin' for the thread.

And I've got pictures of the highway all along my walls
My friends you can have them all.

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from Pictures of the Highway, released February 18, 2021
Don Davis

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Marc Black Katonah, New York

Marc plays a finger style blues in the traditions of Mississippi Hurt and the great Tim Hardin. Right up to Covid, he was a proud road warrior, inducted into the New York Chapter of the Blues Hall of Fame in June of 2014. As WFUV DJ, John Platt wrote about Marc. "We need to hear his songs now more than ever." ... more

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