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Bootlegged at the Bridge Hotel

by Matthew Colin

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1.
Running Wheel 05:53
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Running Wheel Even when the sun get's down He keeps right along shining Maybe I'm a forever blue moon But baby I'm trying Lonesome with the bar room blues I'm cracked a little And failing to bloom As the music and the misery unwind You can't count on city stars to shine Was your lovin ever part of the deal Or just running in the wheel Someday, someday soon I'm gonna find another way to feel Subtle as the seasons change You get swept up in the motions So many times your heart can rearrange Into an emotionless notion Lonesome as a springtime fool I'm dried and withered And failing to bloom Well I could never, I could never quit you cold So go on and sneak out in the night when I'm not home Was your lovin ever part of the deal Or just running in the wheel Someday, someday soon I'm gonna find another way to feel
2.
Thrift Store Jesus 05:33
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Thrift Store Jesus Well I never learned how not to be afraid When I left town I had both feet Staring down an early grave So I put a lot of highway under my feet And a lot of friends who had try to teach me But protest and I were certain that I could not be saved And then my heart fell apart I was a man with no start Nowhere to run, but into the dark And I never had a backup plan for change But I’ve got a handful in my pocket And a thrift store Jesus dashboard saint In the past the future never looks the same So I’m throwing back this bottle once again I think I can make these colours better If I push around the paint But when you’re heart falls apart There you stand with no start Nothing in your head except the dark But you move in time how you move in time In time you’ll move
3.
Vacilando 03:54
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Vacilando I was wondering in the streets Through my old town home Kept fallin in on heart ache For the black bottomless road Where the tar and gravel run You can shiver in your soul But if I was better of for stickin round It's best you never know I bathe in more than just one house Slept on too many a street There aint no quota here to living friend You learn a smiles more than teeth I been some long years waking up My bones are itchin now again Whether wind or rope or feather Take a step when you begin Now I'll be mournin in the mornin When the lonesome starts to set But you understand it's just that I got Goin left to get One more drink or smoke or joke Then Rosalie and I must roll Just unsettled as the dust dear Whenever new in town gets old And I'm sorry babe You know I just can't stay I gotta hold my truth The only way I know ...In the spirit of the great Vacilando And I've got Old Pancake in the pocket Of this great western denim My brow tucked neatly underneath A sturdy Havstad brim These old leather boots and I Maybe a million miles seen But my love's still coming up With some place else to be
4.
The Vulture 06:25
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Vulture Vulture’s got a dead heart Picking at the bones of a dying art You can’t feel the way a rock bleeds How your soul sings And your melody soars In the city scene The bird never was a stone About as strange as strangers go He’s gotta sell it to believe it If that’s the only way you know You’re such as sad and sorry soul Never felt the first love In the heart of Rock and roll You never were one for creating Instead you try to populate it Get your handshake face out Everywhere you go Well up here the wild north don’t need you They’ve got a family at grass roots Honey you’re so far gone There’s no need for coming home I see you circling up there bird Are you coming for me? Are you coming for them? Or are you just hanging on the scent On the wind?
5.
Delicate Flame 04:51
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Delicate Flame Stayed away a couple days too long Woke up with the changing wind Blew me around while Tested my sails Carried me a note or two And then changed her tune Maybe could have been a better song Ah, but the ending came through Spun me around a while Wrung out my love Danced on my loneliness And I danced on it with you Too Drag my string if you want babe I’m not shy around the dirt To the cracks in the skin Rub it in some And I’ll be the one counting on what it’s worth All this hurt And if yesterday was still comin round tomorrow Ah well she’d teach me the same one She’d hold my hand a while Then I’d lose again But I’ll be what was lost I just stayed away A couple days Too long
6.
Happiness On Hold 04:39
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Happiness On Hold Oh brother what you doin? Acting young and full of hope You’re revealing all your feeling Like you never had it broke Don’t you know? the world is trouble Livin’s pain, you ain’t been told? You gotta put away your part each day A little happiness on hold Aw babe, you got the right idea Holding hands with misery Don’t go letting your heart get carried away With all this joy you found to feel The big screen dream, the true love scene Is a lie that you’ve been sold You gotta stomp that down when you come around With you happiness on hold There’s no shortage to the substitutes Come on and pull the wool down hard You’re soul ain’t nothin special kid, Everyone’s a still-born star So tie your ankle to the anchor Until your love for life lays cold And you’re standing there with your empty hands And your happiness on hold You’re gonna see some pretty things That will lead you to believe There’s a crack of hope in a coat of pain The old moth to a lamplight scheme But trust me when I tell you folks It’s only panning or fools gold Leave it settle deep and lay your head to sleep Next to your happiness on hold Now try to find you some reflection There’s some things you outta face Ain’t nobody ever laid to rest Was content to end the race Now if it’s hung from your potential At least you know which card to fold Buried ‘neath the clay, with your stone engraved A little happiness on hold
7.
The Curse 03:33
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The Curse Well you’re a beautiful waste of my time And I can’t get you out of my mind (off of* in the 2nd chorus) You know I wouldn’t call this love But loving you’d be alright a beautiful waste of my time I’d like to sit arm in arm holding hands Waving goodbye to setting suns And making cliches of romance Put that two stepper on and we’ll dance Don’t get me wrong here now babe See it’s a trick or a curse feeling this way A mind is something you discover But i can tell your picture perfect face With one eye closed from half a mile away Well you’re a beautiful waste of my time Oh and I cannot get you off of mind You know I, wouldn’t call this love But loving you’d be alright Such a beautiful waste of my time Now I’m more a bottomless ocean kinda guy But sometimes a wading pool will suit me just fine See it’s your company that I want And no not just for tonight Thou that’d be a beautiful waste of my time
8.
One More, Someday 06:04
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One More, Someday Trouble making hopes’ll creep Into your heart while mind’s asleep Stirring up the flicker…., just to fall again Between your tired fingers White knuckled, unforgiven, Burning slow like winter Oh you’re sun-lit but still cold in the end Half moon hangs big and low Drinks me up with it’s whispering glow Carry on in closer, into the shadows hand You were right about the dark A growing stillness for my part I’m all fooled and vacant bark Only echo and reflection in the end Oh you can tell my dreams I’ll be leaving soon Just give me one more ‘someday’ I’ll be leaving soon Turn on sunset like a curtain blow A tucked in, shut lid, starlight show Nothing but the weight ... can make you understand You can’t bring the morning closer And fewer hours hold your head up Buddy you just got to remember To kiss those loving lips and hold her while you can
9.
Coyote 05:39
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Coyote I got the DIrty Kid Takin my passenger side Cruisin mountain highways Behind Canadian lines Passin freight-liners whining Up them switchback routes Lookin for a litte somethin That I do believe we found I'll take another cup of joe Keep those train beats runnin Keep the pickin up the pace And the melodies are hummin I got the good-bye blues behind me And the warm hello still comin I'll be back this way again But honey I won't be rushin All the greats sing through my radio The sun she's shinin overtime Visions of the home I left Are slippin quickly from my mind The kid and I have dyin days Make the memories shine like gold Till the song is sung And the story tellin is told Friends you pick up on the way Will help you drink those dollars dry When You're pockets empty son Just pull some love down from the sky And if it's road to nowheresville We'll roll on anyhow I used to be a coyote But I think I'm alright Noooooooowwwwwwww Beer and whiskey through the night Behind the wheel all day Surely a man ain't got too long Keeping on this way While the good times are good gettin Lord tha's where I'm gonna stay In the cradle of the mountain Rollin down the song highway
10.
Town Like You 04:49
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Town Like you Grey sky days winter cold sways Got a hold of my feet, slammin on the breaks What’s a town like you doin With a man like me? I’m lovin your face, but some folks are strange Draggin down people when it ain’t your place What’s a town like you doin With a man like me? Well be petty and compete, How do you sleep? Nothins gonna improve with your shit in my shoes What’s a town like you doin With a man like me? Living is in the giving And the getting ain’t the bet If lovin’ is all you’ve got to loose Pour some down into your blues My slow heart winds a whisper in time Missing the mountains, the cedar and pines What’s a town like you doin With a man like me? See I’m a fast friend, some are gun to the head But I’ve got warm arms honey, what are the harms What’s a town like you doin With a man like me? Just want to get along, to sing and strum For ears with a heart, but your tear me up inside What’s a town like you doin With a man like me? Living is in the giving And the getting ain’t the bet If lovin’ is all you’ve got to loose Pour some down into your blues And carry on the things that’ll keep you free What’s a town like you doing with a man like me? Go on and carry on the things that’ll keep you free Sometimes you’re the axe, and honey, I’m trying to be the seed
11.
Trigger 05:15
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Trigger Honey i'll come round and pull your trigger I'll be mountain air that's clear and free to find Ain't no trouble in your timing getting quicker It's a fool who waits with winter on the mind These fingers dance across your silver moonlight My lips have kissed the beckon of your call Your body sways in tides of swell and hunger No man has felt a better kind of fall I will tumble down between your knees of mercy And pray in tongues at heaven’s holy door All your peaks and valleys that were born to tremble Will crash upon the ocean’s mighty shore Now baby let me show you all that's mystery No liars hand should hold a beauty down Beggars hold their cups and ransom kisses I won’t take no crumbs the day you come to town
12.
Nuisance 03:58
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Nuisance Close your eyes darlin Pretend that I’m someone That your heart still belongs to If we’re ever gonna make it Maybe you can try to fake it See where that get’s us to But what a nuisance is this love without a lover And what good is my heart? Close your eyes darlin Pretend that I’m someone That your heart still belongs to We were never going to make it But we still tried to fake it Look where that led us to You’re not with me I’m not with you I never claimed, our love was true And what a nuisance is this love without a lover And what good is my heart?
13.
Times When I Think Of You 05:03
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Times When I Think Of You When the sleepy blossom begins Like she's bringin new days dawn Leaking on the mountain shoulder Comes to roll away the fog There's a chirpin bustle brewin Calling out into the morning But the weary weight so softly lays And keeps dreamin When the melody so sweetly steals Your mind and starts to stray And wraps a heart in lovin arms Like it's always been that way There's a peaceful inclination Though it might not last too long Each solemn word, a soul has heard And it keeps a love believing When the silent space grows deeper still And the darkness doubles down And the strangers face don'tt seem to paint in Nothin but a frown Oh sorrow like a blanket falls But no comfort there to find Those tears are blind, it's only time The one thing you'll keep needing When the heaving wind and canopy dance in the shadows of the pines And the gentle warmth that brought you close Seems a dream that won't unwind Ain't no sadder soul than one who knows There'll be no change of heart Maybe lesson learned But when a love has turned Don't you mourn the fleeting seasons
14.
Somebody, Sometime 04:47
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Somebody, Sometime Sleeping in my bed, you’re swimming in my head You’re smokin out my scent with your fancy cigarettes I’m the kinda man to admit when I’ve been thinking wrong Sending signal after singal up into the city sky and now it’s gone And someone ought to love you sometime Somebody better get this right I can’t be there for you darlin It’s been too many of these nights Your heart’s got a spark waiting Somebody outta love you sometime Walking underneath a halo, silver lining passing by Well Johnny says you got it bad and he ain’t the kind of man to lie So if you want to be a sweetheart Well then I hope you find the light Burning through your every waking hour baby Everybody’s born to cry So go on and kiss your own lips Hold your own hand You gotta love your own heart Before you can find Your own two feet to stand
15.
Hard Rhyme 05:30
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Hard Rhyme Passing fast and heavy on your mind It's hard to shake the losing hand of time Days burn out, and end up glowing in the night And the constant revolution rages You and me got the same old changes Behind the bottle and on the band room stages Where the love is real There's a living somewhere that you gotta find No steady path between the falling or the climb The wind knows you're only dust And keeps blowing all the while But push on friends your light is only fading You and me got the same old changes It's in your arms and on your close up faces Where your love is real And it's a long…. it’s a long hard rhyme, most of the time. Somehow worth the fight. I got a disposition towards pissin on my fire Hope sparks a little, tries to kindle some desire But I'm a foolish heavy soul, dreams still dancin in my eyes Just another slow train rolling off the rails You and me got the same old changes I'll be here when you run out of places Where your love is real
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Nothin But Nothin 05:20
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Nothin But Nothin One dream at a time Something’s gotta be left behind Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right One dream at a time Look out lonely soul Don’t you stay stalled too long Pretty soon you’ll forget just how it’s done Used to hold the light inside you Locked away so tight Now it’s just your shadow That kept you holding up the night One dream at a time Just take what you need to stay alive Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right One dream at a time It’s easy to have faith When you’re the dawn Around noon it gets to being A little harder won Are you chasing down an answer That isn’t left to find What’s the point to your drinking If a body ain’t been dry One dream at a time All your love that bends, and breaks, and binds Life ain’t nothin but nothin going right One dream at a time

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From the archives of a forgotten hard drive comes this compilation of two live sets, bootlegged off the mixing console by a pair of locals at the Bridge Hotel in Castlemaine Victoria, Australia.

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released November 9, 2023

All songs written and performed, with plenty of mistakes, by Matthew Colin.

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Matthew Colin brings with him the values of histories great ramblers, 'a song and a friend for every mile behind'. It'll only take listening to one or two lines and you will find a writer of considered craft, carrying values nested in a time of country folk music where all that mattered was the song itself. ... more

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