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Ten Miles to Bliss

from Val Holler Band - EP by Val Holler

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Standard or Open G tuning. This song is a cowboy-alien fantasy, written in New York in 1996 based a earlier poem that had been written on a Kerouac-esque road trip from Houston to California with some friends in the summer of 1989. The song was re-recorded in the summer of 1998 for "Versicle."

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"Ten Miles to Bliss"
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VERSE
Well, allright. Gonna stop my ride in the middle of the road -
lay down look up at the stars.
Hell, allright. Seems there's plenty of space for the entire human race and a pickle or two on Mars.
Well, OK. You know there's nothing wrong and I won't be long looking up at the milky sweet and sour.
Hell, OK. She said I see it in your eye - there's a will to fly and a
turtle-dove loving kind of power.

CHORUS
I FEEL, IT'S TIME. LAY DOWN YOUR GUNS-AND-BUTTER PHILOSOPHY.
I KNOW, IT'S TIME. TEN MILES TO BLISS, 'CROSS THE BORDER OF A KISS.

VERSE
Well, allright. So she's showing me how to milk a sacred cow on a moony Sunday farm.
Hell, allright. But I'm a little bit confused about these Martian blues and
their innocence to harm.
Well, OK. Should I dare to do Rogers and Astaire with a legless alien girl?
Hell, OK. Guess I'll stay for a while, learn the miracle mile, come back and give the Earth a twirl.

CHORUS

BRIDGE

SOLO=BRIDGE

VERSE
Well, allright. So I heard it was bad, some were filthy, some were had.
Some were up to their knees in shit.
Hell, allright. But with a little space magic, we'll heal the tragic - turn dust into silver sand.
Well, OK. Stirred up a little faith from the wren to the wraith to embrace a loverly skit.
Hell, OK. So you see my little spry, there's a time for lullabye, and there's a time to strike up the band.

CHORUS

OUTRO=BRIDGE

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from Val Holler Band - EP, released September 2, 1997

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Val Holler Nashville, Tennessee

Val Holler is a singer-songwriter who has performed and released music mainly from the mid-1990s to mid-2000s, while based primarily in New York City, Los Angeles and Berlin, Germany.

Check the artist Kanude for newer music by the same creator.

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23 E. 4th St., 3rd Fl
New York, NY 10003
tel: (+1) 646-504-4958
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