Two Dead Rattlesnakes (On Morning Star Lane)
A couple of years ago I spent some time in Mariposa, a small town in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California. Each week the local newspaper would publish a resume of the incidents, provided by the County Sheriff’s Office, that occurred in and around the town during that week. In this song, a member of the Sheriff’s Office has discovered that his wife doesn’t love him anymore. In the first part he is leaving to get to work, he’s in the car, listening to the radio and thinking of what had been happening. The second part is a list of his work during that week that will end up appearing in the local paper. Life in its mundanity and sadness.
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Kissed your face as I was leaving
Your eyes were closed, your breathing slow
I didn't know that you'd already gone.
Your connections, Your planned intentions
Didn't show
Took the road to Mariposa
You took your mind to somewhere else
I couldn't think outside my head
I was a fine mess, you couldn't care less
You had yourself
The radio moans on and on, but doesn't play just one note wrong
The story's like a mournful, sad, sad George Jones crying song
Unlike the genie in the lamp
I had no wishes I could pledge
We'd stuck it out, through thick and thin
You were thin skinned, this was the thick end
Of the wedge
The radio moans on and on, but doesn't play just one note wrong
The story's like a mournful, sad, sad George Jones crying song
A domestic ended in arrest
A dog attack on Whitlock West
Grand theft up on Snyder Ridge Road
A trespass on Violeta Way
A petty theft by the Old Highway
A vagrant found dead where nobody goes
Suspect men on Silver Bar
A public drunk who won't get far
Water theft in a land without rain
Burglary on Fairgrounds Road
Harassment by Barrett Cove
Two dead rattlesnakes on Morning Star Lane
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