The Long Slow Decline of Carmelita The Long Slow Decline of Carmelita A woman counsels a bandit hiding out in the hills above the Rio Grande... cruel parting words circle in memory like buzzards... dust devils turn the sands... two shadows gently touch on a moonlight walk... a shot rings out in an alley... hungry dogs gather in the street... on a flight from Sonora, a woman kisses a faded photograph and says goodbye to her lover... after three years a woman still feels her lost lover in the night... a girl sleeping in the desert wakes to witness a midnight burial... a bottle crashes through a windshield at a Saltillo gas station and a car goes speeding into the night... a girl pawns her Virgin de Guadelupe for a last fix... a spirit floats down a dark hallway past her own name scrawled on the wall... a Colt 45 bolsters a woman’s faith in fate... a distant friend remains true as the tides... two lovers breathe the same air, their shadows make one shadow, but it’s only a dream... a woman sings a love song to her guitar... a star falls... it’s The Long Slow Decline of Carmelita.
Robert Earl Hardy, Townes Van Zandt biographer (A Deeper Blue; The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt to be published in soon)
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