Story Behind The Song
watching someone close to me in the last throws of life and feeling powerless to do anything about it.
Song Description
my fondest memory of my grandfather as we were watching him slip away, a time reflecting on his life and what made him the man he was
| Song Length |
6:11 |
Genre |
Folk - Contemporary, Folk - General |
| Tempo |
Floating |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Quiet, Heartbreaking |
Subject |
Sorrow, Regret |
| Similar Artists |
Ryan Adams, Ray LaMontagne |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
don jensens blues are real.
i can feel their parading curse course through my veins.
he comes to me at night, speaking in a soft voice whispers, reaching never touching on, don jensens blues.
and it burns me up to think that i'd fall into line with don jensens blues.
shine all your everlasting love from on high, down on me tonight.
don said come stand here in front of me, i got something to share with you boy, in a vein weathered hand he held a cane handle, two meters of fine platted leather, and a horse hair cracker.
promise you'll remember me buy this simple trick i share with you now.
and with that in a fury, the whip cracked twelve without touching the ground.
chorous: i ask you have you ever known the pain of desperation?
spilling through my fingers
and coursing the grain of floor stained timber.
father clear the passage home through absolution and sentence me to pray for don jensens blues.