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15 Dead Stallions

from The Lecher's Waltz by Rasp Thorne & the Briars

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    The debut studio album from London guttersnipes. Includes 16 page booklet with lyrics, artwork and photos.

    Recorded and mixed by Alex McGowan at Space Eko Studios, London, England, 2012.

    Mastered by Harvey BIrrel at Southern Studios, London, England, 2012.

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lyrics

15 Dead Stallions


Fifteen dead stallions on a winters nite,
Spikes in the stables and a serrated knife,
There’s a form that limps on the hiway side
The crooked-eyed man limps into town.

‘Neath the droning crackle of neon lites,
The porno shops an’ poor boy strife,
Where the only sin is incesticide
The crack of a cane starts to resound
a tap tap tap echoes around.

Where fluid’s crusted in the drains,
Where oblivion’s reached within a vein,
Where there’s the scent of that sweet crack-cocaine
there’s heard the offbeat cracks of a lethal cane.
The crooked eye man slashes into town.

There’s not a helluva lot that you can do from drownin.
When yer bound face down on the flooded floor,
Be a big man an’ stop that wretched shouting,
You’ve been a naughty lil’ boy an’ you got what you deserved.

From El Paso is where she came, her parents pockmarked gypsy’s from ancient Spain,
At age thirteen she’d run away from the city,
She always seemed to snare her hair in those neon lites,
As a child they called her Rosalita,
She’d blow kisses to the stars droppin out of the Texas sky.
Ya really couldn’t ask for one much sweeter,
But her papa an her brothers didn’t treat her right.

With a cracked thumbnail from a strangers car door slammin,
With a thrift store purse and blotched mascara lines,
With a smack or two and a couppla months in county,
She surrendered to what the men seemed to adore,
Yes, she traded her mother Mary,
Traded her mother Mary
She traded her mother Mary for the whore.
For the whore . . .
For the whore . . .
For the whore . . .

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from The Lecher's Waltz, released July 8, 2012

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Rasp Thorne Berlin, Germany

Rasp Thorne is a writer, musician and performer based in Berlin.

Current musical projects: DRUCKS, CHAGRIN, Silk Rut (Berlin)
Previous bands include: Rasp Thorne & the Briars, LaZY SHaRKS (London) Ryder Pales, and SPAR HORNET (NYC)

Along with solo songs he has also recorded poetry extensively.

'Etched in the Ether', a collection of lyrics, is available now through CHAGRIN PRESS ... more

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