Steel Bridge Song

from Troubadour of Stomp by pat mAcdonald

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lyrics

A fire ahead, a fire behind
and cool cool water runnin down below
A feeling so real, a bridge made of steel
that i can cross over, whichever way
i must go

Memories and anticipation
it's all a little fuzzy
it all goes by so fast
Memories and anticipation
maybe nothin stands forever
but it seems these beams
were meant to last

This bridge won't burn
though with every heartache
in defiance i have tried
This bridge won't burn
even when there's nothin
but fire on either side

A fire ahead, a fire behind
and cool cool water runnin down below
A feeling so real, a bridge made of steel
that i can cross over, whichever way
i must go

This bridge won't burn
though with every heartache
in defiance i have tried
This bridge won't burn
even when there's nothin
but fire on either side

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from Troubadour of Stomp, released August 15, 2021

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pat mAcdonald Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

From my bedroom to barrooms to Timbuk3, to exile in Spain with an album in the can & no plan, I was always chasing increasingly trivial triumphs & glorious failures. A midlife German label deal enabled European tours from home base in Barcelona. From Legendary Sons of Crack Daniels to Purgatory Hill &back, i now live and work projex out of the Holiday Music Motel in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. ... more

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