Song Title:  Silver Trombones

Music by:  D.M. Blackthorn, Amber Amnesia, "Dead" Ben "Carleton"

Lyrics by:  D.M. Blackthorn, "Dead" Ben "Carleton"

Meter / Style:  fast 4/4 with drone / Gothic Love Story

Story:  Came out of a late night jam session with D.M. Blackthorn, Amber Amnesia, and “Dead” Ben “Carleton” at Hellarity En Sue’s, the infamous house “with the half-shattered windows” mentioned in Mad Mickey Lee’s song the Carnival. Lyrics by D. M. Blackthorn. Mournful tuba solo by none other than Willie “Crash” Landin.

Lyrics:

Silver trombones sound the night - Dark and deep, their plight
And on an aetherial wind it flies

Silver trombones filled with mold, Spores waft through the night skies
They rest upon a tomb so cold, Where two lovers met and told the tender-est ov lies

Donning the grey shroud, Rough against her skin, His cold, dead, hand,
grave dust upon his brow, upon his lap, an ivory cask contains “the map”
to a far and distant land

Silver trombones sound the night, Dark and deep, their plight
And on an aetherial wind he flies – and he has flown away.

She tastes ov the salt and the lime, though all her tears were spent so long ago
So she kisses his hand one last time, And says the final rhyme
And sends her soul a-wanderin oh…

Silver trombones sound the night. Dark and deep, their plight
And on an aetherial wind she flies – and she has flown away

Silver trombones filled with mold. Spores flying into outer space
They rest upon a tomb so cold - Where two corpses lay hold
in their final embrace

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