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Painting It Red

from Sweet Desperation by The Shady Janes

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What sort of insanity awaits you when she's gone...to the dust? She's still there in the dark shadows, disappearing around every corner...the passion and the heartache haunting your every moment.

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I suffer you rightly
Oh wrongly accused
Recuse myself nightly
How blessed the muse

Sicken me sweetly
I tasted a stain
A blemish so wonderful
Never attained

Adrift in a dream
And transported away
My skin and my bones
Will wither and sway

My slumber sings promises
Sweet to my soul
To love and to cherish
To have and to hold

The white sheets are folded
No need to take form
The air is her breath
On my neck in the cold

Fingertips begging
My brain to be fooled
Her smell parallel
To each thought that unfolds

She rocks me and reels me
I’m slipping away
It taunts me, this feeling
Like tears in the rain

Captured, enraptured
And tortured the same
The walls won’t stop laughing
The drapes are insane

Forlorn is the darkness
With shimmering lust
Wanton and wayward
The path in the dust

Trust me this once
To wrangle you lightly
Silken red ribbon
With ankles bound tightly

Hopeless position
Unites underneath
Untie me if only
To caress my cheek

Seize what you want
With mute affirmation
Everything once
Was a wistful temptation

Hazy reflection
And flickering screen
A fistful of flesh
A mouthful of screams

Seventy inches
Of ground are above you
Everything once
Was the way that I loved you

Take anger and passion
And gasoline fumes
Mix them together
And burn down this room

So long as I’m living
I’ll surely be dead
My heart’s turning black
But I’m painting it red

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from Sweet Desperation, released December 25, 2011
written/performed/recorded by Brad Hahn
mastered by Carl Saff

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The Shady Janes Fayetteville, Arkansas

The Shady Janes is a rock band from Fayetteville, AR. Relying on heavy-hearted songwriting from singer/guitarists Brad Hahn and Jayce Bannister, the band evokes the somber and the hopeful with equal fervor. Backed by the rhythm and creativity of Jeremy Mock on the drums and Damon Dugdale on the bass guitar, the group packs an emotional punch and distinct energy that is likely to capture hearts... ... more

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