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Composer: Tom Russell

Tom Russell - Touch of Evil lyrics



The night my baby left me I crossed the bridge to Juarez Avenue
Like that movie "Touch of Evil" I got the Orson Wells/Marlene Dietrich blues
Where Orson walks in to the whore house and Marlene says, "Man, you look like hell."
And Orson's chewing on a chocolate bar as the lights go on in the old Blue Star Hotel
"Read my future," says old Orson, "down inside the tea leaves of your cup."
And she says, "You ain't got no future, Hank, I believe your future's all used up."

Chorus:
Why don't you touch me anymore?
Why don't you touch me anymore?
Why do you run away and hide?
You know it hurts me deep inside
Why do you close the bedroom door?
This is a brutal little war
What good is all this fightin' for
If you don't touch me anymore?

They shot "A Touch of Evil " in a Venice, California colony
And I grew near those dead canals where they filmed the longest pan shot ever made
Now I'm thinking about the movie, the bar I'm in, the bridge, the Rio Grande
Now I'm thinking about my baby and the borderline 'tween a woman and a man
I was drunk as Orson Wells the night I crawled backwards out the door
I was screaming "Baby, baby how come you touch me anymore?"

Chorus

Oh, someone roll the credits on 20 years of love turned dark and raw
Not a technicolor love film – it’s a brutal document, it's film noir
And it's all played out on a borderline and the actors are tragically miscast
Like a Mexican burlesque show where the characters are wearing comic masks
“Oh, it's love and love alone,” I cry to the barmen in this Juarez waterhole
As we raise a glass to Orson and "A Touch of Evil" livin' in our souls

Chorus
Songs list of album: Borderland (2001)
         Title Rating
01   Touch of Evil lyrics  
5.00
02   Down the Rio Grande lyrics  
4.75
03   When Sinatra Played Juarez lyrics  
5.00
04   Where the Dream Begins lyrics  
5.00
05   Hills of Old Juarez lyrics   -
06   The Sante Fe at Midnight lyrics  
5.00
07   The Next Thing Smokin' lyrics  
5.00
08   California Snow lyrics  
5.00
09   Let It Go lyrics  
5.00
10   What Work Is lyrics   -
11   The Road It Gives, the Road It Takes Away lyrics  
4.67
 

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