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Montana

from Shaker Chair by Rob Siegel

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A cowboy fantasy from me who almost never writes songs about anything that didn't actually happen to me. Sometime I'd love to record a whole CD with this big acoustic rhythm / Rickenbacker 12-string riff / organ and slide / cracking snare sound.

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I guess I jumped without a chute
I was drunk and she was cute
I saw her and my soul began to bleed
goodness knows what she saw in me
the first time was like you dream about
hair flying clothes lying all about
a love like that could kill a man
it never happened that way again

I think Montana just might be
just the thing I need for me
love comes like a swarm of bees
you’re red and stinging when it leaves
I won’t see you in a cloudless sky
as eight hundred miles roll by
out of the corner of my eye

she must’ve been just testing out her wings
young girls do that kind of thing
young men dream of being where I was
when I caught that first upward gust
the random element and timing’s chance
flaws in the crystal brought us to this dance
love like a flash flood like snow in may
came out of nowhere and went away

I think Montana just might be
just the thing I need for me
winter comes in her pretty white dress
why’s it leave such an awful mess
I won’t see you in a cloudless sky
as eight hundred miles roll by
out of the corner of my eye

maybe we just need the pain
of something offered and pushed away
love the needle
love the blade
love the damage
you have made

you can’t hold time you can’t hold fire
you can’t hold truth if you’re a goddam liar
you can’t hold dreams if you don’t dream bold
she wasn’t ever mine to hold
there’s some things I should see
but my hindsight ain’t what it used to be
look there on the edge of tears
you look right at it and it disappears

I think Montana just might be
just the thing I need for me
comfort comes in strange degrees
isolation if you please
I won’t see you in a cloudless sky
as eight hundred miles roll by
out of the corner of my eye

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from Shaker Chair, released June 1, 1999

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Rob Siegel Boston, Massachusetts

Rob Siegel is well-known in Boston folk music circles as an innovative songwriter who draws from his idyllic yet stressed- out middle-class suburban existence and produces memorable, intelligent, well-crafted songs.

His first new CD in 14 years, "A Landscape of Ghosts," will be out in April, with a CD release show at Club Passim on Monday April 30th.
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