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Jake Fulton's 115th Nightmare

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I dreamed I was a drifter, and water was short
Well the wells had all dried and the soil was hard.

A curse on the earth, I scrimped and I begged
A letter on my chest and a mark on my head.

In the howlin' dust hillside, I sought paradise
but only found dry weeds and thirsty parasites.



Well I begged and I pleaded, Mama please let me in,
I've got no place to go, an nothin' left of my kin.

Well you took my offer and you sized up my thirst
and you drew me a glass from a well in the earth.

I said, What water is this, it's like dust in my mouth?
She said what you call water, we call somethin' else.



Well the Master and the Reverend they jumped in my skin,
And said the only way to treat sorrow, is to treat the evil within.

And the stone-faced sages and the ashamed-to-be-kind,
Said they don't need me to talk, cuz they can just read my mind.

The tribunal and the commune, they judged me all wrong
And sentenced me from my evil thoughts to be hung.



Well they dragged me to the gallows and asked my last words
I said I don't know how I got here, and I don't feel I been heard.

I die a confused man, all I wanted was happiness
It seems like what one man wants, some other man gets.

And the sin born and the natives, and the possessed ones,
Cried out in sorrow at the death of one of their own.

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from Jake Fulton, released February 14, 2014

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Jake Fulton San Francisco, California

Jake Fulton, 26, is a songwriter whose style draws deeply from the folk and country music tradition. He lives in the Lower Haight in San Francisco.

Fulton's debut album, released in February 2014, was recorded partly in his Lower Haight apartment in San Francisco, and partly in a bare-bones studio that sits facing the sands of San Francisco's foggy Ocean Beach.
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