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The No Hit Wonder

from The No​-​Hit Wonder by Cory Branan

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Years of living blood to string
Years of living hand to mouth
Years just getting gig to gig
East to West, North to South
He could have been making a killing
Peddling the Dream
But if you found him at all you found him just scraping
A living blood to string
So sing a song for the no hit wonder
Though it isn’t one of his
He’d sing ‘Shovel me under
Boys, it is what it is’
He broke free from the way they raised him
He knows a heart is hell enough and never full
He never sang that music would save him
Knows never trust an evangelical
He’d say ‘You wanna know what true love feels like?
It’s the next best thing to death
Feels like after an elbowed windpipe
Just before the next breath”
So with your next breath sing a
Song for the no hit wonder...
But at night he can hear the fireworks
From his tunnel underground
And he’s carved himself a little crawlspace
Just to lay his body down
To fade out of sound
To the thunder under town
Sing a song for the no hit wonder...
Yes, I slipped and sipped astray
It only took one taste to see the way
Back to Tennessee to stay
Tennessee my darlin
When I go below the gloomy ground…
I don’t want no Beaujolais
Sake, Cider, Chardonnay
You keep Tequila far away
You know what i’m cravin
Ain’t Champagne all fine and chill
It’s not all rot-gut, shine, and swill
You ask me life’s a cask
Of bitter-sweet sour mash
When I go below the gloomy ground…

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from The No​-​Hit Wonder, released August 19, 2014

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Cory Branan Nashville, Tennessee

Throughout his decade-and-a-half-long career, Cory Branan has been too punk for country, too country for punk, too Memphis for Nashville, and probably a little too Cory Branan for anyone’s damn good.

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