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Little Bill & the Late Fees

by Fate McAfee

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1.
She’s got the eyes of a dog that’s been beaten and left in the rain When she does walk her hair flows like smoke from a train The one man she needs is the one that ain’t willing to change They sleep in the same bed but she may as well be sleeping Six hundred miles away She makes dinner every evening got the boy tucked in by nine She’d never eject this movie just wishes sometimes to rewind Thumbs her glass of Merlot looks off her back porch at the pines Tries to pry herself loose of the unforgiving grip from the hands Of cold, wasted time I’ve seen the boy’s eyes yes I used to wear them myself Angry at the man that’s always out fixing something else Tell him You can’t buy these days back even if you outgrow yourself So it’s time to come home your son needs a father And his mother could use both of you as well END
2.
Think before you say that do you want to go there She asked me and the question lingered in the air Heard all the things you love all the things you can’t stand What is it, then, that’s keeping you from takin my hand Your passion has no discretion all your reasons temporary She said to me abused like a dirty mine canary I searching for a clue looked out across the field The wind offered nothing like a fate long-sealed A broken soul is still alive in pieces but the same Reaching out in all directions for serenity or blame I knew not what I’d found when your world came into mine But I can find the words if you can make the time With the back of her hand she hid the sun from her eyes Looked up to me saw straight through my disguise she said Santa Fe to Burlington every railroad has its end Darlin with a one-way ticket I ain’t goin back to where I been A spade wasn’t a spade till I learned to call it so May you sing beneath the sun may you tumble in the snow Santa Fe to Burlington my darlin you are on the move I’ll find you again with nothing then to lose END
3.
Oh son of Orphalese come speak to me please I am down on my knees for you Oh son of Orphalese You grew up in these streets you grew up in these streets You always kept the beat my love But before you leave Your ship is comin today your ship is coming today And you know you cannot stay my love Your ship is leaving today END
4.
Snapshot from your life like in a movie but is it really moving Or is it just abusing and confusing you Cigarette break at the backside of the restaurant first thought best thought What you want you have never truly chased Kickin bottle caps all the way home drunk and alone The blurry city night atones for us all Midnight gaze atop the shaky staircase the lines in your face Map the mistakes and disgrace that you’ve seen Let me be but a scene within your movie and I’ll keep moving A shade of blue contusing you The sun sets on the moral of your story what does it say of mourning Or was it surely just for glory for you END
5.
Era's Yard 04:46
She don’t work on a street corner never worked as a nurse Don’t talk much on time or the back of a hearse Never photographed herself left scrapbooks on the shelf I’d heard she was bad and getting worse Chorus: Era’s yard is empty ‘cept for a nineteen-fifty Seven Chevrolet With a picture of her on the dashboard fading A little more each day Her only baby died in Iraq Vietnam done her daddy in She knows more truth of war than any newsman can pretend But she never talked on the bombing or the rebels that’s a coming For she knew there was no painless end Chorus Dusty dress sun in the West sweepin up lost time off the porch Such a long race to run when you know you can’t hand off the torch Her heart is attached to the anchor line memory is a field of patient landmines But she’s never looked at lovin like a chore Chorus END
6.
I won’t do you wrong tonight do you right until the end When you feel this life is the one you just can’t live When you got none to give and when you’re feeling spent Leave a note babe and I’ll take a hint When you feel as though you’re falling to whatever waits below You can feel your love slowly withdrawing into change’s undertow When you feel like a scarecrow among dead and dying crops Take a nap and I’ll take a walk What begins with a match must end with embers Nostalgia sirens wailing Do you remember I’m lost among the timber thinking how memory is history’s transient crook Leave a match babe and I’ll take a book END
7.
October Wind 06:10
The wind blows down the street the lampposts stand lonely in a row Underneath the crimson awning black clouds begin to roll I know I have seen that face before in the chasm of abandoned memory You were a friend of my sister’s, do you remember me Chorus: Blow wide blow true O October wind And can you tell me where the one I love has been Staring down the railroad tracks with that searching look for truth Feels like it’s been so long since I’ve just been But the decisions made lead me where they do Have not been made mindless of you Chorus It is spoken casually but has such a piercing ring of pain Have you seen her lately or heard how she’s been I picture her riding with strangers on a dark and lonely road Tell her I didn’t read the letter or whatever brings her home Blow through me through me O October wind And can you tell me where the one I love has been END
8.
I’ve been lovin Virginia for such a long, long time Her Shenandoah Valley and the creases of her eyes Don’t hold a candle to the preponderance of her superficial lies I been lovin Virginia for a long, long time Chorus: I been lovin Virginia for such a long time What is it in that girl’s heart that is never satisfied What was it we were waitin for standing in that line Righteousness or solitude or means to become blind To the hardened truth that in the end all may not be fine I been lovin Virginia for a long, long time Chorus Easily she came to me now easily I go Nothing’s changed but everything is different just to know That many more to her heart through her rivers row And even more in her fields to be picked apart by crows Chorus END
9.
A memorial rain falls on the highway in a pounding pour The orange streetlamp exposes it like never before Thunder shakes the windowpanes with a rumbling roar As the lightning strikes blue The darkening clouds head East across the racing sky An eternal gap within them catches my eye A last glimpse of the sunset like a truth among lies Offers me silent hope Across this light are dancing silhouettes by the looking to be seen Innocent imaginations from the purest of dreams They fade into each other and they fade into me While their souls drift aloft The colors are all encompassed and swallowed into night The buckets are emptied and they’re coming down with all of their might Put the book back under the bed my darling we don’t need last rites For Heaven, my friend, Heaven is late A memorial rain falls on the highway flooding memories A skid mark a track mark and a constant vacancy But I’ve seen the silhouettes and I know what they think they’ve seen Heaven, my friend, Heaven is late END
10.
Hillside 02:47
There is something nagging at your mind Begging you to leave behind Troubles that in time Have proven themselves To your pain There is something nipping at your heels Reminding you what’s real What it means to feel The rolling of your wheels Finding home You’re hillside with a downtown view One-way ticket to plan two If you can make it through The thorns of fear surrounding you The world is wider END

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released April 1, 2017

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Fate McAfee Murray, Kentucky

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Hailed by American Songwriter as "A songwriter to watch in folk and Americana", Fate McAfee is an independent musician, engineer, and singer-songwriter. He frequently collaborates with Midwestern acts like Leonard the Band and Melanie A. Davis. ... more

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