Pleasure without the Pain

from "Stairway to Evan" by Evan P. Donohue

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Momma stole the words out of Shakespeare's mouth
make you come alive with your tongue hanged out
Daddy was a preacher in a house of sin
Momma stuck around cause she loved him
they gave me a bill for the debt I owed
on the day I was born up a back woods road

pleasure without the pain
momma take me back to the golden grain I want the
pleasure without the pain
never gonna work but still get paid I want the
pleasure without the pain

I cheated and I lied and I tricked my way up
by flipping a bible or two each day
curbed my thirst with the wine and the beer
stole a Cadillac as a souvenir
drove to Florida M I A M I in heaven or hell
I don't care
The girls in the bathrobes out on the porch
moaning in passion to pass the torch
get yourself lit and be a guiding light
stick a little pin in the ass all night
never had a place that I made my own
till a dirty little street corner called me home

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like a flickering light in a coming storm
I was damned to rot on the day I was born
I know I'm gonna die in a prison tonight
the preacher came late to read last rites
asked to repent and I held his cuff I said
I didn't get drunk or laid enough

lurking in the mud for fourteen years
I dug my grave when I got here
more pills more blow more heroine
more vomit and blood on the linoleum
I spread my foul wings high and wide
I am the reason why good men die

I was born in the valley of the shadow of death
with Frankenstein Dracula and Macbeth
when you're lost and you're weary and things are unclear
I am the wolf that your shepherd fears
if Jesus saves I hope he spares the rod
because I am the man who stood apart from God

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credits

from "Stairway to Evan", released October 12, 2014
Kyle Ryan on everything except guitar, bass, and vocals.
Mixed Produced and Engineered by this guy! Hire him!

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Evan P. Donohue Nashville, Tennessee

Raised in NY & hailing from TN, EPD, co-founding father of Nashville punk outfit, Diarrhea Planet, finds a niche within the chamber pop library between Beck and Elvis Costello. Fans of EPD note wit in his lyricism & the raw gravity of his live performances. Listeners will fall under the spell of Nashville pretty boy's ability to create garage-pop which blows a kiss at Squeeze & Harry Nilsson. ... more

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