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Tango & Tequilla

from Baptized In Ice by Eric Martinez

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This song started when my good friend Cecil "Pnut" Daniels and were talking about some wild fires in Texas and he said "The state of the weather is dim and so dry the water turned to blood" and I wrote it down. Thanks Nut!

It ended with a couple of lines I borrowed from the Keith Richards book Life. "As long as there's a song, Desperation of Love" The two lines were from two different chapters and for some reason they each struck a chord with me so I decided to use them. Thanks Keef!

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Take a minute to shake the sleep off
The time to work has come
The state of the weather is dim and so dry
The water turned to blood

Snows still on the rooftops
My baby's gonna freeze
With the cold that's in this town
Her blanket never leaves

I always thought I’d die
On the Pike in Rockville City
Then I met my girl one day
I learned how to live

I was taken to school on the tracks
Right outside my house
I was told never to come back
Always seemed locked out


Little family in a warm house
On the avenue of Saints
They spit in the face of God
And do a carney song and dance

Tango and Tequila
Two of my favorite things
Speaking French on the beach one night
But never did again

I watched a building burn
From a St. Louis bridge
I had a truck stop lunch
I hope those people lived

Wishing off your dress
Dancing in the waves
Feel that heaven is falling
Angels getting saved

Home is your hotel
Or where your baby waits for you
The only friends I got right now
Are the lights on Portland Avenue

As long as there's a song
Desperation of Love
Rebirth in my living room
While the spiders stormed the cove

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from Baptized In Ice, released March 12, 2013

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