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Cold Wind, Cigarettes & Wine

from Junkyard Recordings #1 by Franklyn Currie

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A song wrote years ago, and released on the Franklyn Currie "Self-Titled 5 Song EP" The self-titled release was a full band version of the song. Here the song is performed solo acoustic, intimately in Franklyn's apartment.

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The wanted ad says, "Dead or alive."
A reward is paid if with him, you arrive.
He's slinging guns, he's a soldier,
He's wanted for the murder of his wife.
If you see this man, don't you talk to him
Just keep on our way passing by.
This man doesn't eat or sleep,
he's living on cold wind, cigarettes and wine.

Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.
Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.

He'll speak to you deceiving words,
Now don't you fail friend, focus on his eyes.
He's an old man, he's a young man,
He's lookin' man, for a means to survive.
They say he's staying down by the tracks,
He's waiting for the next steam-train to arrive.
No, this man doesn't eat or sleep,
he's living on cold wind, cigarettes and wine.

Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.
Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.

Before you go, come over here.
And let me tell you something between you and I.
For this man isn't flesh or blood,
He lives inside the worst of us.
He's that thing that makes you want to die,
He's that thing that makes a good man lie.
Catch him now, catch him if you can,
and we'll be better off, you and I.
Because I don't want to live on a bottle of pills,
For something I've been diagnosed with, clinically.

This man doesn't eat or sleep,
he's living on cold wind, cigarettes and wine.

Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.
Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.
Cold wind, cigarettes and wine.

credits

from Junkyard Recordings #1, released December 11, 2009
Franklyn Currie - vocals, guitar, words and music
Recorded and engineered by Paul Reimer

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Franklyn Currie Abbotsford, British Columbia

"Born and raised where city meets country, Franklyn Currie finds inspiration for his emotive songs in the vast fields of the Fraser Valley, and the train-tracks and alleys lining the core of his small-town home, Abbotsford, BC. Driven by his passion for writing and making music, Currie’s soft-spoken, “alternative country” style blurs the edge between downhome and downtown..."
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