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Inspired by the drug policy crisis and dedicated to its victims, and aimed at those who have failed them and us.

From Bright Sunny South, a traditional southern song, especially the version performed by Dock Boggs.

Lyrics from several sources, including a Kentucky banjo song called Morphine, especially influenced by versions from George Gibson and Clifton Hicks; Heroin by Lou Reed, Jangling Jack by Nick Cave. Additional lyrics by Dwayne Strohm

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I took heroin last Saturday night
I took it in that heroin way
If somebody hadn’t come just as they did
I’d be in my grave today

When the smack begins to flow, I really don't care anymore
About them politicians makin crazy sounds
And everybody putting everybody else down
And all them dead bodies piled up in mounds

I took heroin last Sunday night
I took it like a silent scream
All alone in my silent home
I fell into a darkening dream

I asked my dear father, is your god aware,
I have made the big decision, tell your god I do not care.
Drive that spike into my vein, and things aren’t quite the same
I guess that I just don’t know

I heard my mother's voice singing, Do don do
I heard my own voice shouting, Momma, Momma is that you?
I saw the berserk city, saw the dead stacked in piles
Saw the screaming crowd, I screamed, “Where am I?”

I took heroin this Sunday night
I took it in a hell of a way
Nobody came for me, I sat there for a while
Til your God came along and he threw me on the pile

credits

from Short Life Of Trouble, released May 9, 2022
Arranged and performed by Country Mouse
Lead vocal - Dwayne
Backing vocal - Ben
Arlen Thompson - Synth

with lyrics from Lou Reed and Nick Cave

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Country Mouse Nanaimo, British Columbia

Country Mouse are four feral forest creatures brought together by a shared love of outsider music and the unlikely coincidence of each having a body to bury. They have conspired, collaborated, and shared shovels ever since. They create low tone psychedelic doom folk with Appalachian and punk rock over and undertones. They sound best in forests and look better in the dark. ... more

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