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    Side A
    1 Time Bomb
    2 The Occupier
    3 Blood Line
    4 Heaven’s Waitress
    5 Iron Skin

    Side B
    6 Austin (you sorta stole my heart)
    7 Owe My Soul
    8 Mumbling Town
    9 Stage Inside the Main
    10 Assume The Ground
    11 Ave. In You
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lyrics

You put the dents in all my old leather soles
You knocked me back in sweet repose
You let me in and showed me how your old coats
Covered tattoos that opened wounds

Make your heart frail
So I can be its occupier
If I fail
I can't help you make it whole again

I love the neck
I love the fret
I love the fall
Of each and every minor chord
These hands were meant for telling three-minute lies
They're just too weak to hold a life

credits

from Don't Let Me Stay, track released March 13, 2012
John Velghe - vocals, acoustic guitar and keys; Mike Alexander - electric guitar; Chris Wagner - vocals and bass guitar; GoGo Ray - drum set; Hermon Mehari - trumpet; Michael Walker - trombone; Sam Hughes - saxophone; James Mitchell - cello; Whitney Williamson - violin; Catherine Root - violin

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John Velghe Baltimore, Maryland

John Velghe (pronounced Vel-jee) writes songs leaning towards personal narratives and accounts of people he’s met over 20 years of playing and touring. From a friends ex-wife in Austin to a 4-year-old waitress in Lucas, KS to a transvestite railroad worker in Duluth, MN; Velghe populates his songs with real characters who’ve informed personal allegories about escape, transformation and fear. ... more

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