Chris Whitley

From A Photograph

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Baby got a gun, how's she to know?
I already see the ghosts
Everywhere I go
She don't know that
I don't mind
If angry she'll be fine
But if she cry, please don't let me know

Well I seen her with her piece today
Never missed you more
Seeing you that way
The phantom around my bed
Now I'm sleeping with the dead
Baby's got a gun, I'm bound to go

Gods above and underground
While the ghosts go back and forth
Through town
They wander around outside
They don't know there's nowhere to hide
Baby got a gun, I'm bound the go
Gone, gone, gone

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mapledmb On Jul 24, 2002

Big Sky Country

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Serve You

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2002-07-24 21:02:09

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by shanerman66

13y ago

Love this song - a lot... I miss Chris Whitley terribly.

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by johnzappa

7y ago

Just heard this beautiful song on shuffle in my car. Fantastic! I miss him so much. Have every albums and some bootleg stuff that's tasty. Saw him many times and met him once in Boulder. I wish I could offer some intricate insight to his poetry but he was so inside himself it's always hard to decipher. This song sounds like a suicide that reflects on the emmotions of others afterwards. I don't know. Beautiful song. Thanks Chris.

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