Shades Come Down

How I spent the 80s #27

TRAVIS and ALMIS rehearsing in the garage at Snake Ranch

Shades Come Down © Mark Ricketts & Almis Zdanius

I lost a friend

To the Foreign Legion

He cast his pain

To the desert region

He loved an angel

In gym shoes

But she was too fast

He tried to catch his breath

And came in last

I know a manic depressive artist

His best works were created in darkness

Lost his heart to a numb one

And talked to himself

It seems his Mona Lisa

—(This line is too creepy. I disown it.)—

Shades came down

There is a priest who crossed off his flock

When he decided to cast off his frock

Drank wine with a devil woman

She drug him under

Took his white collar

Then came the thunder

Shades came down

I’m starting to question

If it’s all worth the trouble

Still, when the shades come down

I hope I’m around

Oh, when the shades come down

I hope I’m around

When the shades

Come down

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The Wild Taxi-s at Snake Ranch

Mark Ricketts, vocals. Almis Zdanius, keyboard. Travis Garth, guitar. Matt Barry, drums, rainstick, background vocals.

Ruthie Thompson, background vocals. John Paul Peregrin Jr., studio engineer. Beth Sutton, engineer's assistant. Dan Peregrin, management. Recorded in a blanket padded garage called McCobb Studio at Snake Ranch in Conway, Arkansas (home of the abandoned dune buggy). Almost Hi - Fi.

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