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Hard Edge of Livin'

from Little Blue Egg by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

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lyrics

darlin come to me, satin and lace
just a weary trucker’s vision through the rain on my face
though i’m drivin through the valley of the shadow of your smile
i will fear no evil memory, let me dream awhile:

it was green summer berries, it was flowerin trees
then starry nights and dog days and babes on your knees
and autumn frost and storm clouds castin shadows from above
rainin darkness and ruin on the house of love

now it’s a blue texas norther with a 20-ton load
and i’m ten miles outta nowhere special on a dead-end road
and a wind that whips like rawhide on this jagged yellow line
and the hard edge of livin is a friend of min

god is my witness, poker’s my game
whiskey’s my poison, forgotten’s my name
and it’s biscuits when i’m hungry and it’s diesel when i’m dry
and it’s 18 wheels of lonesome for the tears you cry

in a blue texas norther with a 20-ton load
runnin ten miles outta nowhere special on a dead-end road
with a wind that whips like rawhide on this jagged yellow line
and the hard edge of livin is a friend of mine

lost and wasted on an endless plain
i am glory-bound, screamin down the passin lane
i am a rollin ball of thunder, i am a blindin flash of light
i am a last blast, fallin fast star tonight

when the radio crackles and the station goes dead
and the rumblin of the engine plays your voice in my head
i will roll away the windows, i will let the cold bite deep
i will tremble like a live wire in the throes of sleep

somewhere between midnight and the changin of tires
in the dregs of roadhouse coffee and the company of liars
in the dark behind the headlamps, in the rust behind the chrome
i will find the sign that guides me to the road back home

through a blue texas norther with a 20-ton load
and i’m somewhere outta nowhere
with a wind that whips like rawhide on this jagged yellow line
and the hard edge of livin is a friend of mine
yeah the hard edge of livin
it’s on the backroads i have driven
and the sinner unforgiven is a friend of mine

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from Little Blue Egg, released February 14, 2012

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Tracy Grammer Greenfield, Massachusetts

Writer. Actor. Storyteller. Singer. Multi-instrumentalist. Former head cheerleader, now a fearless navigator of the heart.

“One of the finest pure musicians anywhere in folkdom.” - Boston Globe

“A brilliant artist.” - Joan Baez

“Her gifts as a musician are like that of a painter who is a master of chiaroscuro, offering light and shadow at every turn.“ - Mary Chapin Carpenter ... more

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