Looking for Pearl - (2005)

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From the CD "Gathering Dust" by The Dust Devils
2006 Texas Music Awards - Female Vocalist of the Year

Written by Higgins/Malteze

lyrics

I’ve heard that God loves a good singer
But she must’ve put some devil in you
Or maybe it was all of that bullshit
That you put up with in school.

Takin’ 69 down to Port Arthur
Past the prisons and refineries
I guess I went lookin’ for answers
And it seems you were lookin’ for me.

Sad rows of vacant buildings
Broken windows and broken dreams
I’ve only walked a mile in your shoes, baby
But it all hits home with me.

I’m just a stone’s throw away
From rockin’ your world
Just a stone’s throw away
Ooh, I’m looking for Pearl.

They say that he who casts the first stone
Had better take very good aim
Or be left with a guilty conscience
And spend a lifetime dodging the blame.
But they loved you up in Winterland
Like they loved you at Monterey
And as I stood beside your Porsche, mama…
All the beauty, all of the pain.

Tell me, tell me, tell me
Is this a dead-end street?
It all comes down to Port Arthur
Then it flows out to the sea.

I’m just a stone’s throw away
From rockin’ your world
Just a stone’s throw away
Ooh, I’m looking for Pearl.

Yeah, God gave me my own voice
But she must’ve put some devil in me
Or I wouldn’t have run out of my hometown
On a rail that made me scream.

I’m just a stone’s throw away from rockin’ your world
Just a stone’s throw away, my little hometown girl

Just a stone’s throw away
Ooh, I’m looking for Pearl

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from Archives, released December 4, 2021
Featuring:

Kevin Higgins – Guitars
Tom Bukovac – Lead Guitars
David Hungate – Bass
Mark Beckett – Drums
Pat McGrath – Acoustic guitar and Resonator

Special Guests:
Barry Beckett – B-3
Glen Duncan – Chin cello, Mando, Banjo

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