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The Angel of the Lost Hi​-​Way

from Jericho Gap by Mat D

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Originally released on 2012's Broken Hymns Vol 2 as an acoustic demo, the first official recording of this song was released in 2016 on the Profane Saints' final album The Mercy Road. This song was re-worked and re-written for release on Jericho Gap.

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Take a wide road pull into a turn-style diner in the shadows of a lustrous night with a smokehouse waitress marinating in a river born of bourbon under blood red light drink a swill so hot it'll cook your spit where the sugar never touched no cream hell the mud's so sacred that it's practically a legend don't your criticize a goddamn thing

Take a wide road pull into the turn-style diner where the lonesome go to lose their way hell, you can gnash your teeth while you chew a little coffee with the angel of the lost hi-way

the angel of the lost hi-way

At the motel stag take your last good drag flick the ashes to the concrete tile with broken bottles from the dirge poised to ravage and purge every drifter down a po-dunk mile

find an angel that'll do for a night or two in the darkness of a sumptuous dive let it rattle and roll till you're ready to forget her boy your never getting out alive at the motel stag take your last good drag hell they hope you will enjoy your stay and you can blow your dime on a starlet that was mine known as the angel of the lost hi-way

The angel of the lost hi-way



these dead end dreams and detours Lord they haunt my soul
just to resurrect what's dead to cull the fire below
her riven halo shining like the setting sun
yeah, upon the wheels of death I'll ride to rule this h-way by her side...

there's a chapel up ahead where they're singing with the dead to the rhythm of a five stringed drum aching bodies still collide while they're ushered inside like they're calling down the kingdom come
drink a swill so clear it'll cast out fear where the copper turned the corn meal sour I'm singing "Get back Satan on the road behind" with the shakers at the judgment hour

Yeah there's a chapel up ahead where they're singing with the dead and the sinners go to kneel and pray they're singing get back Satan on the road behind to that angel of the lost hi-way drink a swill so clear it'll cast out fear where the lonesome go to lose their way leave your faith behind with the rambling kind and that angel of the lost hi-way

yeah-yeah the angel of the lost hi-way

credits

from Jericho Gap, released March 30, 2023
Jeff Deignan - Drums, Percussion
Scott Walters - Bass Guitar
Jason Haven - Electric Guitar
Mat D - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar

produced by Mark Dahm

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Mat D Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Mat D is a singer-songwriter from Sioux Falls SD. His music is described as hard luck Americana and bad man ballads. .

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