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Stageline

from The Shakes by Andrew St. James

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Stageline

Go on and smile a bit baby, you seem to be the only one that’s getting on
Maybe I’m too wild and saintly to come on and excite your skin and bone
I need some kind of excitement, and I feel you tinglin’ inside my veins
Young and holy, dressed in black, scared of what your becoming
Cause maybe you’re the only one that’s coming home,
And maybe you’re the only one left on the stage line,
We’re running out of sight on this island
Its cold, tonight.

You say I’m running from something, If I am I aint got time to complain
You say I got next to nothing, If you come along I wouldn’t hide my shame
You contain some desolate beauty, and enough wit to not question why I came
Come to my doorway dressed in black im not the only one running,
Play ghost to the night on the open road
With the visions of Neil all up in your headlights
Loose track of the days for a little in the American night

You need time surely, I don’t need much I swear it
You know there is a shrine somewhere, come one lets go and find it
Before we get old, honey, and drown in this tenement midnight
Your hope runs cold, and the future is not so bright anymore,
So come on, now, lets roll.

So please just live a bit baby, you say Im blind but its you that just cant see
You’re enslaved by the blues of the morning, come on babe lets go find some trinity,
I’ve danced with the angels of darkness, They’re not as dark as protectors of what’s good,
Young and holy, dressed in black, scared of what you’re becoming.
Take faith in the only one you know,
The masses wont take time to protect you
Go dance out of line for a thrill on fire, in the light.

Cause maybe you’re the only one that’s coming home, maybe you’re the only one left on the stageline.

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from The Shakes, released October 21, 2014

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Andrew St. James San Francisco, California

Andrew St James is a singer, songwriter and poet from San Francisco, with hefty songwriting chops and a timeless voice that echoes from decades gone by into an unknowable future of music, talent, and vision.

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