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Roadside Crosses & Hollow Moon

by the idle hoes

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she fell out of the blue like rain rolling through over dusty fields in my mind and the black seeds grew into colors I knew would light up the end of the line her love dawned on me like sunrise soothing my dull aching bones but I’ve seen love burn in to wildfire and burn out like ashes in the stones she set down my bags, dusted my jeans and she pulled at my strings ‘til I burst at the seams by the roadside gravel I fell unravelled in the arms of the girl of my dreams she drew me to daylight, brightened the corners i forgot about all of my losses but all I had to give her were wildflowers i’d stolen from roadside crosses and said if we go down baby lets go down burning slow if you could love me maybe then love me baby slow i wanna love you like crazy but I’ve seen enough now to know too much too soon will lead us to ruin and leave us with nowhere to go going down the only road I know take me with you baby where you go we could leave this old road for the trees i’ll put a mark in the gravel to know how far I travelled and return here should you ever leave but if we go down baby lets go down burning slow if you could love me maybe then love me baby slow i wanna love you like crazy but I’ve seen enough now to know too much too soon will lead us to ruin and leave us with nowhere to go
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Hollow Moon 04:52
with the sun setting on the lemon trees i’d climb the hills behind her home beneath Strathbogie views at age 22 i’d wait there as we’d planned for well I knew that soon she’d come as would the stars from midst the blue and in my arms she’d whisper true while looking down that big old hollow moon but then came the war and the burning of the trees and the tearing of the scars that only grew through the clouding of the sky i watched her as she fell for someone new the brilliance of her skin, a picture took it all and I held it to my heart as darkness grew through the gun fire and the napalm fumes i held her screaming to that big old hollow moon hollow moon under that great big hollow moon our love ran out too soon hollow moon my love we’re watching water through the cliffs rush over time moved away the hours into days here I am a man of 54, in civilian life with kids and loving wife and a picture wrapped up in a bottom drawer but sometimes I stand by the windows here at night and all the things that once I thought I knew again I feel them to be true as I look up to that big old hollow moon hollow moon my love say you’ll meet me up above and stroll laughing in my arms forever hollow moon my love say you’ll meet me up above and fall laughing in my arms forever

about

The Idle Hoes double A-side release: Roadside Crosses & Hollow Moon

Four years after their much loved album debut, Little Victories,
The Idle Hoes are back with their soon-to-be released follow up.

The long-awaited new release sees the remaining two songwriters and founding members, Luke Sinclair and Shaun Feeley, find a more refined and considered sound - without losing the authentic energy the Idle Hoes have always felt to be so important.

Roadside Crosses and Hollow Moon mark the first double A-side to be released to celebrate the new album. Both tracks are now available
for digital download.

‘Roadside Crosses’ is a cleverly written, cautionary tale about love lost and regained. Its dynamic and beautifully textured instrumentations are highlighted by the talents of Nick O’Mara on Dobro, and string arrangements by Melbourne’s Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo). This wise and battle-weary love song also features Luke’s wife, Canadian singer/
songwriter Tracy McNeil on backing vocals.

‘she fell out of the blue, like rain rollin’ through,
over dusty fields in my mind’ - Roadside Crosses

'Hollow Moon' has a Marty Robbins-esque melody, and lyrics that evoke the kind of lonesome, hillside imagery normally attained by the great country songwriters of yore. This is one man’s epic tale of all that is, and all that could have been. The song has a beautifully simple, and cleverly structured rhythm, featuring Melbourne guitar virtuoso Matt Green on Dobro, and Cal Walker on Mandolin.

‘then came the war, the burning of the trees, and
the tearing of the scars that only grew’ - Hollow Moon

credits

released September 14, 2012

Songs written, produced and arranged by Shaun Feeley & Luke Sinclair
String Score on Roadside Crosses by Paddy Mann
Recorded by Richard Stolz at Sing Sing South Studios, Melbourne Victoria
Mixed by Richard Stolz at Riverview Lodge, Benalla Victoria
Mastered by Colin Wynne at Thirty Mill Studios, Brunswick Victoria

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