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Suitcase Blues

from Tips & Compliments by Matt Harlan

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Friday morning, silent sky.
Birds poised & quiet on the power lines.
Ugly children disregarding cross-walk signs.
I’m rubbing last night from my eyes.
This city always wakes before the rising sun.
Six cups of coffee before I feel like I belong.
I hit the boulevard with the bus just two minutes gone.

Watching daybreak kill the last few rays of night.
Got this new woman, smooth as candlelight.
We talk of saxophones & dead men’s eyes.
But she don’t know she’s mine.
She bleeds affection like most saviors do.
I walk like cotton all around her room.
I’d tell her everything that haunts my mind,
If she weren’t on it all the time.

See, every woman’s got the suitcase blues.
If they ain’t packing, man you know they’re leaving soon.
Feeling lucky? You just do what I do –
Try to catch ‘em when they’re on the move.

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from Tips & Compliments, released October 19, 2009

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Matt Harlan Houston, Texas

Matt Harlan is a troubadour of the first degree, bringing songs of bus-stops, coffee-shops and lives overlooked to stages across his home-state of Texas, the USA and Europe. His expressive vocals recall Chris Smither and Chris Knight, shading his poignant songs with soaring heart and aching grit. ... more

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