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Steal The Road — A Cross-Country Crime Spree Playlist

These two ate my soul and then I had to spend two weeks assembling a soundtrack for their murdering, bank-robbing, traffic-law-breaking road trip across the southern US. The result is bloody and bluegrassy. I stole one song (the title track!) from Andrezel’s excellent version of the crime-spree playlist.

Track List:

1. Things That Scare Me — Neko Case
2. You Don’t Own The Road — The Kills
3. Wrong Side of the Road — Tom Waits
4. Give ‘Em Hell (live) — Little Hurricane
5. Come My Way — Brown Bird
6. Blood On My Name — The Brothers Bright
7. Lose Your Soul — Dead Man’s Bones
8. Pass You By — Gillian Welch
9. Blood of Angels — Brown Bird
10. Murdermile — The Kills
11. Give The Devil Back His Heart — The Barr Brothers
12. This Tornado Loves You — Neko Case
13. Dynamite — The Devil Makes Three
14. 60 Feet Tall — The Dead Weather
15. Devil Do — Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

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Select lyrics under the cut.

(The rest of the Alice/Loki madness is here.)

01. Things That Scare Me — Neko Case

Blackbirds frying on a wire

Same birds that followed me to school when I was young

Were they trying to tell me something

Were they telling me to run

The hammer clicks in place

The world’s gonna pay

02. You Don’t Own The Road — The Kills

You don’t own the road boy

And neither do I

You don’t own the big city lights

That make my eyes cry
You don’t own the green pines

So be careful where you lean
And when you’re lost under the blue sky
Look down and you’ll find me
Yeah, steal it back for me love
Oh yeah steal it back for me love, oh yeah

03. Wrong Side of the Road — Tom Waits

With my double barrel shotgun

And a whole box of shells

We’ll celebrate the fourth of july

We’ll do a hundred miles an hour

Spendin’ someone else’s dough

And we’ll drive all the way to Reno

On the wrong side of the road 

04. Give ‘Em Hell (live) — Little Hurricane

Give em hell, give em hell, give em hell
When you’re out in the pouring rain 

And the black cloud shouts and your heart is strained, 

Give em hell and your highs will become your lows

Give em hell

05. Come My Way — Brown Bird

This mask of laughter’s your true self’s disguise
If it fools your God then your God has no eyes

Come my way and hurry along
I’ll take you soaring with the angels and gods
Leave your prison chains on the wall
You’ll live forever and you’ll never fall

06. Blood On My Name — The Brothers Bright

When the fires when the fires have surrounded you

And the whole wide world’s comin’ after you

I got blood, I got blood

Blood on my name

07. Lose Your Soul — Dead Man’s Bones

You’re gonna lose control

You’re gonna lose control

Tonight, tonight, tonight

I get up in the morning

To the beat of the drum

I get up to this feeling

Keeps me on the run

08. Pass You By — Gillian Welch

I got a brand new plan, I’m gonna help myself

‘Cause it’s a fat man’s town, I’m gonna share the wealth

Put the money in the bag, keep your hands in sight

Turn around, count to ten, and I go back into the night

09. Blood of Angels — Brown Bird

I drank the blood of angels from a bottle
Just to see if I could call the lightning down
It hasn’t struck me yet
And I would wage my soul to bet
That there ain’t no one throwing lightning anyhow

Too many tries at tempting fate to call it over
And you get to thinking fate’s got different plans
Like maybe i’m not born to die
But to bring darkness to the sky
And pull that goddamn sun down anyway I can

10. Murdermile — The Kills

It’s piling up one by one

You look bluer, do your do or die

But I ain’t pull or push that pin in your side

A body split in two doesn’t know how to sleep

11. Give The Devil Back His Heart — The Barr Brothers

Son, take nothing to the East 

And give the Devil back his heart 

Mother, pray for us, 

So we are not sleeping

While the others are sleeping 

12. This Tornado Loves You — Neko Case

My love, I am the speed of sound

I left them motherless, fatherless

Their souls they hang inside-out from their mouths

But it’s never enough

I want you

Carved your name across three counties

Ground it in with bloody hides

Their broken necks will line the ditch

‘Til you stop it, stop it

Stop this madness

This tornado loves you

13. Dynamite — The Devil Makes Three

I’ve been hearing the voices of the grave

Now every single one made me their slave

Pushing their music down into my veins

All that powder and all that pain

I sweat and stack it down the mine, it’s true

You can straight feel the blast when we brush against you

I know that it’s coming, and I ain’t worried, no

‘Cause we got enough here to go around

And every single person’s gonna get them some

14. 60 Feet Tall — The Dead Weather

You’re so cruel and shameless

But I can’t leave you be

You’re so cold and dangerous

I can’t leave you be

You got the kind of loving

I need constantly

Hooked up to my motor

All day long

We go down to Texas

Up to Montreal

15. Devil Do — Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs

Ain’t nobody gonna love me like the devil do,

Ain’t nobody gonna love me like the devil do.

Gonna get drunk, get my gamblin’ on,

Gonna get real dirty, gonna get real gone;

Ain’t nobody gonna love me like the devil do.