“Did you hear the ‘59 sound coming through on Grandmama’s radio?
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?”
-The ‘59 Sound – the Gaslight Anthem
Music & Lyrics written by Brian Fallon, Alex Rosamilla, Alex Levine, & Benny Horowitz
As appears on the album “The ‘59 Sound,” released on SideOneDummy Records
July, 2019.
Matthew was sick. Sick sick. Matthew was the kind of sick you couldn’t sleep off, or go to work in spite of better judgment in regards to your own health, or even drown in cheap booze to kill the germs according to some wive’s tale passed down along the generations of Central Pennsylvania mountain people. Matthew was sick and he wasn’t getting better. A man that had once been built sturdy enough to earn him the nickname “Moose” had become frail and sickly. The curly locks his wife had loved had surrendered to a shorn scalp, with little whisps of prematurely gray hair remaining. Truly, he’d been sapped of the strength to be himself, and that’s what broke my heart the most about Matthew being sick.
Treatments were unsuccessful and Matthew decided he wanted to pass at home.
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A.P. Miller 