15. MICK SHAFFER: SPOOK HIGHWAY
M. Shaffer; Affected Twang Music (ASCAP)
Mick Shaffer: Vocals, guitars, stylophone; Danny Allen: Guitars;
Wil Hendricks: Bass; Tim Vaughan: Drums
Produced, recorded, and mixed by Danny Allen at Baby Buck Studios, Oakland, CA
Don’t get lost in those oncoming lights,
Don’t drift across the white, white lines.
Four hours since the temple burned down; five more to my Haight Street home.
Dusted eyes and a flickerin’ mind that just roams and roams and roams.
Out here on Spook Highway.
Next to me she stirs and then falls out again,
Nodded off mid-sentence hours ago.
Said she’d help to keep me awake and alive in this road,
Never trust the word of anyone that stoned.
Out here on spook highway
I see an ectoplasmic lover, she’s givin’ me a wave,
On spook highway
Way back at midnight, we was all pretty as can be,
Faux fur peak-a-boo pants, and other slutty finery.
Stars aligned, flames did climb, and I burst into bloom,
Now I’m withered on the vine, I’m out of time, I’m racin’ with the moon.
Out here on Spook Highway
Man, I can feel everything! Except my feet,
What was her name, that Wicca from St. Pete?
She looked in my eyes and prophesied that my end is probably near.
What, when, where, and how, she’s not exactly clear. (And shit I’m…)
Out here on Spook Highway
There’s that ectoplasmic lover and she’s sashayin’ my way.
On spook highway
Four day clothes, four day grease,
Four days no sleep on a four day creep.
Four day party with the freak elite,
Four days in the desert lookin’ for God and something to eat.
Oughta keep to the back roads, keep the cherry-tops out of sight,
But Spook Highway’s so pretty and she’s burnin’ bright tonight.
Bent and broken, oh honey I know it, I’ll get us somewhere somehow.
What was that? You say you want me to burn it all down?
Out here on Spook Highway.
Out here on Spook Highway (Hello…)
Ectoplasmic lover I’m comin’ out to play,
On spook highway
Spook highway
Spook highway….
Whoo, here comes another one…
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 MICK SHAFFER:
Mick Shaffer crafts roots-rock short stories of lovers, buggers, and thieves. Sometimes funny. Sometimes raw. Mostly at the same time.
The SF Examiner says Mick is "a truly phenomenal bottle-neck blues guitarist...if Joe Strummer had been born as Johnny Cash”. His 2012 recording, “Fool For Love”, is available on iTunes & CD Baby. |
