Bryan Ferry

Released: March 5, 2007

Songwriter: Bob Dylan

Producer: Bryan Ferry Rhett Davies

When you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
Don't put on any airs
When you're down on Rue Morgue Avenue
They got some hungry women there
And they really make a mess outa you

Now if you see Saint Annie
Please tell her thanks a lot
I cannot move
My fingers are all in a knot
I don't have the strength
To get up and take another shot
And my best friend, my doctor
Won't even tell me what I've got

Sweet Melinda
The peasants call her the goddess of gloom
She speaks good English
And she takes you up into her room
And you're so kind
And careful not to go to her too soon
And she takes your voice
And leaves you howling at the moon

I started out on burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff
Everybody said they'd stand behind me
When the game got rough
But the joke was on me
There was nobody to call my bluff
I'm going back to New York City
I think I have enough

Bryan Ferry (born September 26 1945) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who rose to prominence as the lead singer and main songwriter for the influential art/glam rock band Roxy Music.

Ferry’s unique vocal style puts a wry, sophisticated spin on the sound of the crooners of the mid 20th-century. An accomplished songwriter, his solo career also saw him singing celebrated covers of the Great American Songbook and jazz standards. On his seminal 1973 solo album These Foolish Things he also covered ’60s hit rock songs like the Rolling Stones' “Sympathy for the Devil” and the Beatles “You Won’t See Me,” establishing something of the formula for his solo albums until the 1980s.

He dated model Jerry Hall, before her marriage to Mick Jagger. Their break up inspired his 1978 solo album The Bride Stripped Bare. After putting Roxy Music on hiatus 1982, Ferry released Boys and Girls in 1985, featuring original material. Ferry’s solo career has extended into the new millennium with a collection of Bob Dylan covers entitled Dylanesque. His 2014 album Avonmore returns to his classic Roxy Music sound.

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