Name: Saltwater Blues
Duration: P00H05M23S
Description: 'It's a song that everyone and anyone can relate to, and it has haunted me every since I wrote it way back in 2012.' - RyVo

Saltwater Blues

by RyVo & The Revolving Door

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'It's a song that everyone and anyone can relate to, and it has haunted me every since I wrote it way back in 2012.' - RyVo

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Saltwater Blues
by Ryan Voss

I hunger & thirst with aching head
Come home with just enough bread
Satiated for another few hours
As another spoke on the wheel
I’m not the only one with need to vent
Each day’s wages face tomorrow all spent
Losing ourselves up the ladder
In fading hope of a better deal

Saltwater blues,
There’s just enough to keep us floating
Without direction or refreshment
Saltwater blues,
Just enough to fill your glass & drain you dry

Saltwater blues,
Keeping us adrift & delusional
Slowly sapping up our brains
No stimulus for the restless,
Only a fool can stay sane

So little time to let myself be
Alive only for the mundane routine
Paying dues for the rat race with just enough stamina
To do it again & again & again & again
And we’re all working & paying our fair share
Taxing our nerves, health, wits & hair
Only doing as we want here, if it don’t interfere
With what our livelihood depends

Saltwater blues,
There’s just enough to keep us floating
Without direction or refreshment
Saltwater blues,
Just enough to fill your glass & drain you dry

Saltwater blues,
Keeping us adrift & delusional
Slowly sapping up our brains
No stimulus for the restless,
Stick out your hand & pray for rain

My kingdom for a doorway out
I’d kiss it with cracked lips
It’s sure to pop open wide just in the nick of time
When I’m old, arthritic & sick
No longer grinding gears, free at last
For my few remaining years not yet tumbled past
In vain pursuit of all those dreams I’ll be too senile to remember

Saltwater blues,
There’s just enough to keep us floating
Without direction or refreshment
Saltwater blues,
Just enough to fill your glass & drain you dry

Saltwater blues,
Keeping us adrift & delusional
Slowly sapping up our brains
No stimulus for the restless,
And only a fool can stay sane

© 2016 RyVo & The Revolving Door

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released November 10, 2019
RyVo: rhythm guitars & vocals
No Mansfield: lead guitars
Sean Valentine: keyboard & organ
Ben Peterson: drums

*Produced by Pamela Parker at Hyde Street Studios in San Francisco.

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In a nutshell: We are a collective of marvelous individuals that play folk rock with hints of jazz. Folk with strange, 'illegal' chords!

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