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From the new "All That Glitters" album by Pietra Wexstun & Hecate's Angels. Purchase : http://cdbaby.com/cd/pietrawexstunandhecatesa Pietra writes and sings a song for the Eternal City. Mysterious meetings with blacklisted actors, musicians and ancient ghosts from the catacombs  - all with a mad Gypsy band. Out now on A440 Records.
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"COBBLED STREETS OF ROME "
I sit in a bar on a side street
A stranger smiles at me
Asks me if I come from
The Land of Liberty

His hair is white
His teeth are bright
He sends me a long-stemmed rose,
Bottle of wine and would it be fine
If he sketched as the candle glowed

He tells me he's an actor
But I wouldn't know his name
Years ago when the work got slow
He bowed out of the game

He'd hopped an ocean liner
And headed cross the sea
Left his wife for the sweet free life
On the streets of Italy

Got a bit part in Othello
And dubbed a film or two,
Played guitars, painted stolen cars,
Even worked in something blue

And the cats crawl from the ruins
And the jasmine sprouts through stone
And tomorrow springs eternal
In the cobbled streets of Rome

And then the actor tells me
The man who did him in
He'd loved him like a brother
He'd loved him like a twin

He died today on a sailboat
And he just had to cry
His friends had seen the bottles
Of whiskey, scotch and rye

And though he'd made his bargain
He never could cash in
With each face that came to haunt him
He'd take a swig of gin

Gypsy girl sleeps in a doorway
Tonight this is her home
Melodies drift from the subway
And the ghosts of the catacombs

Float along the Via Sacra
Past the heavy doors and domes
Where the faithful sing their praises
And the jewels surround their bones

And the cats crawl from the ruins
And the jasmine sprouts through stone
And tomorrow springs eternal
In the cobbled streets of Rome

credits : Pietra Wexstun: keyboards, electronics, vocals / Stan Ridgway: ac. guitar / Bruce Zelesnik: drums, percussion bg vocals / Giorgio Baldi: strange traffic guitars / Enrico Deiro: accordion / Lazlo Vickers: violin. Produced by Ridgway/ Zelesnik / Wexstun.tan Ridgway: guitar, vocals / Pietra Wexstun: keyboards, electronics, vocals / Bruce Zelesnik: drums, percussion bg vocals / Giorgio Baldi: strange traffic guitars / Enrico Deiro: accordion / Lazlo Vickers: violin.

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