The Hood and Sickle

from Ready or Not by The Runout

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Recorded live at Archer Avenue Studio
Engineer: Eric McCoy
2019

Mastered by Matthew Garber at For the Record Mastering

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The hood and sickle

Up on windmill ridge we killed a man
and buried him down the hill in 3 ft of sand
I’d always said he’d stole his last from dad.
The bullet in his heart made it permanent

The corn was high the moon was full and gold
the last he felt was the first october cold
And 30 years of working my old man against the wall
then let him go when the cancer came to call

If I stay in this town for too long,
someone might find what I did and try to make me think I’m wrong

But mom said, run rabbit run,
take the old blue buick that’s been fading in the sun
We’re in the clear now it’s done
keep your head down in the desert maybe time can heal this one.

Up on hermit’s peak I found escap, but thoughts of my old man kept me awake
16 months with tubes inside his veins poisoned water flowing everyday

You’ve stayed far too long in this pain we probably lost you long ago anway

So I prayed, run rabbit run, peel the pain of life away and fly into the sun
We’re in the clear now it’s done
till that hood and sickle come for me, man time can heal this one
run rabbit run, take the old blue buick that’s been fading in the sun
We’re in the clear now it’s done
till that hood and sickle come for me, man time can heal this one

Up on windmill ridge we killed a man, and buried him on that hill in 6 ft of sand

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from Ready or Not, released May 25, 2019
Jeff Gregory: vocals, acoustic guitar
Travis Wright: pedal steel guitar
Daniel Gibbs: bass, electric guitar
Gavin Brown: drums

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The Runout Columbia, South Carolina

The Runout is an alt-country/Americana band based out of Columbia, SC.

Current members: Jeff Gregory, Kelley Gregory, Chris Compton, Moses Andrews’s III, and Mike Scarboro

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