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THE LONG DRIVE

from CHOOCHTOWN by HAMELL ON TRIAL

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Hats off obviously to Raymond Chandler and the gang.

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I'm a private detective, I left at midnight, I got a 5 hour drive, a place I don't want to go. A lawyer woke this morning, looking for a girl, I didn't like his attitude, I can't pass up the dough. I knew her from the photo, the fiance of a dead friend, I didn't let on sometimes it's best to pretend. Her name was Cynthia, her boyfriend Glover, she was brilliantly doomed, I got a kick how he loved her. The Long Drive.

Got to the hotel, set the alarm, I would check the old hangouts so I got up at 10. no luck by afternoon, I stopped at Brunels, the bartender said he's seen her, but couldn't remember when. A ten refreshed his memory, Friday she was round, the night that Joe the Box got poisoned, and ended up face down. His funeral was this evening, though I doubted she'd be there, they were drug dealing acquaintances and she could hardly care, the Long Drive.

The funeral was quiet, Box wasn't that popular, Cynthia was a no show I headed to the car. I saw Yugoslavian Mike, runs an all night card game, for years I saw him nightly, I was there trending bar. Hows the game, I asked. It's a living, Mike said. And I'm glad to say it, now there's 4 drug dealers dead, every one of them poisoned, like Box the same, later, I gotta run, you, drop by the game. The Long Drive.

I went and caught a movie, would have gone to Glover's grave, but he'd been cremated and I wondered about the ashes. Turned up empty on Cyn, some said she'd moved, I had a hunch, sometimes I get these flashes. I was outside of Mikes, she was leaving with a box, I made a U, it was raining, I tailed her 15 blocks. She parked outside of Glover's they'd kept a two room flat, I waited half and tapped light, mind Cyn if we chat? The Long Drive.

Smoked cigarettes in the dark, I remember when I met her, these last years a waste. All of Glover's drugs, all of her prayers, I eased the box from her, I took a little taste. His ashes Cyn? Did you cut them with Strychnine? She wasn't hiding nothing when her eyes met mine. Not a dealer at his funeral, these so called friends deserved to die, I slip him in their drinks she said, and then it's pfft good bye. The Long Drive.

they're on to you Cyn, they sent me to find you, they're small time dealers but they got bosses. They probably won't search, it ain't that big a deal, but you gotta leave now, you're causing them losses. I can get you set up, come with me to the city. She said, "I guess I should go, do you think I'm still pretty?" we left her car there, she got into my ride, we hit the bridge after sunrise and threw the ashes over the side. The Long Drive.

credits

from CHOOCHTOWN, released October 7, 2013
Hamell: guitar and vox, Brian Wolff; trumpet. Recorded live into a Panasonic Boom Box in Brian Wolff's apartment on St. Mark's Place, East Village, NYC, NY

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HAMELL ON TRIAL Austin, Texas

Hamell on Trial is loud, fast music informed by politics, intelligence and a wicked sense of humor.
1995-Mercury Records-Big as Life, The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword.
1997- Choochtown
2003-Righteous Babe Records-Tough Love
2005, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
2007-“The Terrorism Of Everyday Life,” (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Award)
2012-New West Records -The Happiest Man Alive. ... more

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