Name: Blue Skies, Black Death
Duration: P00H05M21S
Description: This is a single off my upcoming album, The Vandal Hands of Man, coming this Halloween. It's about the late, great Marc Mechling.

Blue Skies, Black Death

by Tim Mechling

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This is a single off my upcoming album, The Vandal Hands of Man, coming this Halloween. It's about the late, great Marc Mechling.

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Standin in the tall grass in a dead man’s pair of pants
Boots above the coffins where the cedars once did stan d
Clay burnt to dust
Tools lost to rust
Black clouds in the sky
Light an ink stain spreadin wide

Sunday morning paper where they spelt his last name wrong
Survived by bums and bachelors drivin drunk and gettin caught
Shivering with pain
Like livestock in the rain
Estate lost to drink
Boats born to sink

Upon his cooling death bed, there my momma laid and wept
Inside that broken heart a thousand secrets there were kept
Richer turned to poor
Dogshit on the floor
He bent her to his will
Like a twenty dollar bill

The chaplain’s name was Charlie and the humor wasn’t lost
Jokin with a man of God bout the real estate he’d plot

Bibles at Goodwill
The fathers Jesus kills
Bibles at Goodwill
The fathers Jesus kills

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released October 6, 2023
Hannah Wyatt: Violin, viola, cello
Eli Waltz: Harmonica
Tim Mechling: The other stuff

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Tim Mechling is a Washington-based psych-folk/rock artist. He's been home recording and producing commercially unviable music since 2006.

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