9/12/2023 0 Comments Jesus and john wayne song lyrics![]() In the spirit of a maze (amaze! – didn't intend the pun, but I like it), one wanders as much as listens. With a lyricist as cannily specific as Allen, such repetition not only connects the songs but creates a maze. ![]() The album is Bottom of the World, issued earlier this year – an album in which the word "world" appears or is evoked in every song. "Wake of the Red Witch" is a song about movies and Wake of the Red Witch is a 1948 movie that's haunted Allen as it's haunted me, but in the dark all his life he's not waiting for a movie and not waiting to cross the wake of a clipper ship called Red Witch, so. Waiting for the Wake/ Of the Red Witch/ Waiting for the Wake/ Of the Red Witch" – I listen to this Terry Allen song over and over, surprised at all it evokes, and wondering why, at its end, he needs to repeat that phrase thrice. ![]() "Been in the dark/ All of my life/ Waiting for the Wake/ Of the Red Witch.
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