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About The Next Best Thing

from Lonesome and Midnight by Rand Reynolds

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She had a man with a quick back hand
She felt the sting of his high school ring
Don't know what made him so mad
Pat her on the shoulder, say that man's real bad.

Sporting Ray Bans praying in the church
Asking Jesus why her big love hurt
She run away to the New York state
But he drug her back home like a Negro slave.

Call a cop
Why you waiting on love?
Better not
While you’re waiting on the love.
Maybe he'll stop
Maybe he won't
You're still just a dreaming and you think
About the next best thing.

She loved a high school kid, rough boy
Sneaking outta class, firing up a couple joints.
They had to hide, she was only junior high
Said she's all growed up and she loved the older guys.

Laying on his arm, she tasted that Boone's Farm
Made her feel love in the back of his truck.
He felt her up and she handled his junk
But all the girls did while he finished his business.

She was just a little princess, the apple of his eye
He didn't want her dating any punk ass guys.
You come straight home, don't be hanging round school
You're in my house now and you live by my rules

She lay in bed and razored her flesh
Feeling like a prisoner when she did what her daddy said.
Mom was blind and called her a liar
No big surprise when old daddy caught fire.

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from Lonesome and Midnight, released March 1, 2009
R.Reynolds, ASCAP@2009

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Rand Reynolds Nashville, Tennessee

Rand Reynolds writes authentic Hillbilly Noir, a new music genre he created in 2005 to describe his haunting Edgar Allen Poe- like lyrics accompanied by a stark, rustic Martin guitar sound. The songs reek of the human abyss, danger and disappointment because, in Reynolds' Noir world, hope and desperation go hand in hand -- for his dreams of easy deliverance are empty, two sided and vague. ... more

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