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Case's Blues

from Welcome To Gippsland by Sean McMahon

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CASE’S BLUES (Sung by Narrator)

…about Mary’s sister Case and a friend of Jim’s, a stolen car and an engagement ring

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Flowers in the valley get burned, when the summer embraced them
Soon they fell into the earth, and eventually they all return
Cold Case left on a Sunday, she crept out of a crowded room
While the ones around her wilted, cold Case, still in bloom

She can hang onto a thing or two because she knows
She can put it to better use where she goes.
She loved to watch the towns go by, riding on the passenger side
She sings along with Lucinda, on into an untold night

Underneath the highway stars, taking in a longer view
She romanticized everything that she’s get herself into
Cold Case lying on a mattress down beside her rider’s car
She pockets his money and keys, after he’s bared his scars.

She can hang onto a thing or two because she knows
She can put it to better use where she goes
She’s leaning on a broken down wagon
Steam coming off of the hood
She’s playing down paranoid feelings
She’d keep moving if she only could


Cold Case woke up interstate, before she called back home
“We’ve been trying to reach you since you’ve been gone”
Jim and got a gift anymore, why’d you have to leave him that way”
Cold Case, crying on a payphone, back behind the wheel at the break of day.
She’s going down feeling bad ‘cause she knows she’s returning to the place and people she owes
She’ll settle in fine back home, with a good friend of Jim’s
He’ll be selling everything, to buy her an engagement ring

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from Welcome To Gippsland, released September 1, 2008

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Sean McMahon Melbourne, Australia

With a string of independent releases to his name and over a decade of non stop writing, recording and performing, Sean McMahon has honed an undeniably genuine voice as a singer/songwriter, His songs are laden with lyrical beauty, weaving vivid story telling, confessional narratives and abstract musings through timeless sounds inspired by classic vintage folk, rock and cosmic country, ... more

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