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4th Street Up

from Escaping Southern Heat by Ross Adams

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lyrics

Well I heard it was the fifty-third murder that year
People started raising their families in fear
From the service stations to the county fairs
Lord we burned like magic in the rarefied air

Is what you want an old ghost town?
It’ll take all of us dying just to lay your guns down
But we’re damned if we do and we’re damned if we don’t
I see the only bridge burning that’ll take you home

I watched my daddy die in an oldsmobile
His hands were shaking against the sharp cold steel
I may never heal and I may never love
I may never travel from 4th street up

Through my window I can see your room
Where we’d spin broad stories until the city came to
And for once I didn’t see the old lights swoon
I was caught up in your beauty and your fine perfume

But I watched us fall apart and unveil
All the truth that took us away from here
I may never feel, I may never love
I may never travel from 4th street up

So I’ll never see my daddy at the dinner table
And in the moonlight I may never hear my love

I can see me singing in an old folk club
Young and perfect with the whole world above
Now I’m burning gas just to get away from here
I’ve seen all the tricks this city can endear

But I watched my dreams die in a village wheel
From the words of a poet that nobody feels

I may never heal, I may never love
I may never travel from 4th street up

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from Escaping Southern Heat, released September 10, 2021

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Ross Adams Charlotte, North Carolina

Ross Adams just finished up his third studio album “Escaping Southern Heat” in Muscle Shoals, Alabama this past year. Adams had the pleasure of working with Jason Isbell’s 400 unit as his backing band for the record, with bassist Jimbo Hart producing. Ross created a collection of songs for this record that he describes raw and very personal. The album is scheduled
for release on September 10th.
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