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Suicide By Love

from A Winning Hand by The Lucky Losers

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Sweet, smoky voiced Cathy Lemons tells it like it is regarding matters of life and the heart in this medium tempo, swing blues.

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“Suicide By Love”
© 7/1/2014 Cathy Lemons/ Take No Prisoners/BMI

When I was a girl I had to see the other side
It almost killed me, I barely survived
Do what you LOVE and do it well
Hope that it KILLS you, let it take you to hell

I lived in neighborhood right downtown
All the folks were getting’ down
I was drinkin’ and druggin’ oh so well
I had my portrait taken, at the city jail

Suicide by drink
Suicide by drug
Suicide by gamblin’
Suicide by love

I don’t mind dyin’ if I can hear the whistle sing
I don’t care about money, don’t care about fame
I’ll gamble it all on a nickel and a nail
You have to admit I been doing it well

I want to hear the siren sing a last song
Got to taste lightnin’ before it’s all gone
Baby make me scream, make me wail and moan
Shake my body and rock me to the bone

Suicide by drink
Suicide by drug
Suicide by gamblin’
Suicide by love

Well I’m done with devil, done with dyin itself
I died so many times, ain’t much a me left
I’m traveling light as I can be
Ain’t a man alive, dare to judge me

If I climb back up on my feet this time
I swear to God, I’ll walk a straight line
But straight to me is crooked as a nail
Depends how you see it—and from what corner of hell

Suicide by drink
Suicide by drug
Suicide by gamblin’
Suicide by love
Repeat

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from A Winning Hand, track released June 1, 2015
CATHY LEMONS- VOCALS
PHIL BERKOWITZ- HARMONICA
KID ANDERSEN- GUITAR
JOE KYLE- UPRIGHT BASS
J HANSEN- DRUMS
CHRIS BURNS- PIANO

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Winners of 5 Independent Blues Awards in 2021 for "Godless Land". Blues, soul, old school retro, genre bending sonic films with political and social subject matter as well as great male female lead singing with harmony.

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