Pale Compromises

Commentary:
New Mono Version.
A Robert Johnson pastiche... he was the greatest of them all. I have considered changing it to "Lonely-Hearted Woman," so as to appear less harsh... but hopefully the protagonist is at least somewhat sympathetic. She's just reading her bible and trying to keep her good man round, so she's gonna cut the hair off that po' boy's head. (okay, someone should probably hit me now).

Lyrics:
Honestly I usually improvise the lyrics to this one, along with just about everthing else, but here is what I sing in the recording, which actually gives it more of a narrative than I remember it possessing.

I'm an evil-hearted woman
you're a broken-hearted man
I'm an evil-hearted woman
You're a broken-hearted man
All the psalms tell me to love someone
but I'm not sure that I can.

You know Delilah was a woman
She done cut her poor man's hair
I said Delilah was a woman
she done cut her poor man's hair
What evil will it take lord,
to make a good man scared?

I got to go down to the river
that's what the good book said.
I got to go down to the river
that's what the good book said
Grab my baby when I shiver
and cut the hair off of his head.

They say an eye goes for an eye
a tooth goes for a tooth
I said now baby, that's what the good book said
I got to go down to the river
and cut the hair off of his head

You know a lonely-hearted woman
don't need no telephone
I said a lonely-hearted woman
don't need no telephone
she ain't a-never got to call no one
cause no one's ever home.