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Baltimore Blues No. 1

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Baltimore Blues No. 1 Lyrics

[Verse 5]
Can you hear the sound of the crawling flesh
Now can you smell the burning desire
This place is too small to hide
All the ghosts that's kicking around inside

[Verse 6]
What this town was entirely built upon
You can find it right between the eyes
It's a bullet hole that'll steal your soul
And roll you for your money and your diamonds


[Chorus]
I set out to disappear
And out there I found a new home
But listen Jack, you're on the wrong side of the tracks
At least now I don't have to walk it all alone

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An excerpt from the Rolling Stone Magazine:

“McCauley has always been interested in shady characters, too, like the ones who might hang out at a place like Smeraldo’s: “Baltimore Blues,” one of Deer Tick’s most well-known anthems, was written about organized crime and McCauley’s obsession with gangsters like Henry Hill. “The Baltimore part came from when [Hill] was a younger guy and he used to go down to Baltimore and steal trucks full of cigarettes,” he says. ”

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Yellow House Studio, Baltimore, Maryland
Release Date
September 4, 2007
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