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Sunset Limited (Slow Train)

from The Legend of the River King by La Femme Pendu

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Riding on the Sunset Limited, southwest express
on a slow train through the desert, coming in hot
Porter, wake me up when Texas ends

The last time I took the interstate this far
I was 17 in my mama’s stolen car
had a notebook full of songs about roadkill and cacti
that got tossed out with the classifieds
ooo what I wouldn’t give
to peruse those adolescent perspectives
there’s nothing to see but tumbleweed for 1500 miles
and the man who got on in Tucson just gave me a crooked smile

Riding on the Sunset Limited, southwest express
on a slow train through the desert, coming in hot
I want you to wake me up when Texas ends

I’ve grown accustomed to the rhythm and the rumble of the track
and waking up to sunrise straight ahead
I’m whiskey’d up and watered down and when this train pulls into town
gotta say you’re lucky you’re dead

I’m throwing you a parade you’d wanna go to
it's a hell of a thing
but everybody knows the subject we can’t broach
I swear we won’t speak of the River King
I called the Davis brothers down, they can play the brass
I heard Norm’s heart gave out completely, really knocked him on his ass
Doug finally took off his tin foil hat, I guess you were right
you never did live to see that

Riding on the Sunset Limited, southwest express
on a slow train through the desert, coming in hot
Porter, wake me up when Texas ends

I’ve grown accustomed to the rhythm and the rumble of the track
and waking up to sunrise straight ahead
I’m whiskey’d up and watered down and when this train pulls into town
well

Yeah, you were better off dead
or that’s what you said
unless it was it all in my head

and it pays to live on a streetcar line
and I prayed daddy we’d have more time

Riding on the Sunset Limited, southwest express
on a slow train through the desert, coming in hot
I want you to wake me up when Texas ends

I’ve grown accustomed to the rhythm and the rumble of the track
and waking up to sunrise straight ahead
I’m whiskey’d up and watered down and when this train pulls into town
well.

Yeah you were better off dead
so wake me up when Texas ends
I wish we'd been better friends
but everything ends

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from The Legend of the River King, released November 13, 2020

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La Femme Pendu Los Angeles, California

La Femme Pendu is the musical concept project of multi-hyphenate artist Allison Scagliotti. The demonic feminine in heavy reverb.

Her current project celebrates the pagan wheel of the year, with a song channeled in ritual for each solstice, equinox, and cross quarter holiday.

La Femme Pendu, or the hanged woman, is the twelfth card in the Major Arcana of the tarot.
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