DESCRIPTION:
If you've already checked out the electric album version of this tune, we wanted to share a stripped down version overlooking the San Francisco Bay. Y'all probably recognize the Golden Gate Bridge, but for those of you less familiar with Bay Area geography, that's Alcatraz Island itself hunched in far left of the screen. This song pays homage to the cinematic tunes of some of my favorite California songwriters (check out Dave Alvin's "Eleven Eleven" and Blackie Farrell's "Cold Country Blues" for a crash course). Otherwise it's a love song for California, man's best friend, and frontier justice.

Matt Jaffe: geetar, vox
Paul "Paladino" Paldino: geetar, vox
Rudolph Chernobyl: cinematography

Stream: http://smarturl.it/HHOASpotify
Download: http://smarturl.it/HHOAiTunes


Website: http://www.mattjaffemusic.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MattJaffeMusic
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mattjaffemusic
Twitter: @mattjaffemusic
Instagram: @mattjaffemusic

Lyrics:
Hellhounds of Alcatraz - Matt Jaffe

You had better swim like you ain’t never swum before
Unless you wanna end up lying on the ocean floor
The channel is so windy and the water is so wide
You paddle toward the city under cover of the night
The hurricane’s in motion as you’re jumpin’ off the jail
The Hellhounds of Alcatraz are hot on your tail

They’ll follow you through North Beach and way down to Mexico
You’re never out of reach and it don’t matter where you go
Down The Embarcadero they are following their prey
The strait is getting narrow between you and Judgment Day
So if you ever turn around you know what to expect
The Hellhounds of Alcatraz are dogging all your steps

And the mission bells are ringin’ out upon the open sea
And the angels are a-singin’, but they’ll never set you free

A storm, it is a-comin’ like doomsday coming down
Their paws, they are a-drummin’ like a tremor through the ground
They’re raging up from under, following no common law
Like Wicked bolts of thunder with the justice of their jaw
Like locomotive lightning riding on the howling wind
The Hellhounds of Alcatraz relieve you of your sin

The skies above will darken as you tread into the night
You already here ‘em barking, pretty soon you’ll feel ‘em bite
You hear a deathly rumblin’ as you see the moon eclipsed
San Francisco Bay is nothing but the River Styx
You’re a refugee to heaven but you can’t get off the ground
The Hellhounds of Alcatraz are you dragging you back down