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I walk through the snow and sleet, the snow and hail and then
Freezing rain coming down feels like fire on my skin
I pace through the streets of town walking heavy for the bridge
The cold it fuels the fire in me, my head fills up with rage
Chorus: Blood on the frozen sand
You feel me coming next to you, I sense the fear under your skin
My brains they do the whiskey dance, call to my killing hands
We walk through the silver night, the silver night of pain
I’ll take you dancing darling, the devil’s dance in winter rain
Chorus
I feel walking next to me, the heat inside your hands,
I’ll take you down babe once more, down to the frozen sands.
The pier it smells of rot and fish, of fish and blood and gore
take you down once last time, doll, just like I’ve done before
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Environmental Blues
Christian DeArmond © 2017
You can't swim the beaches And you can't eat the fish
The water looks pretty but saturated with shit
E. coli, pesticides, sewage overflow
rich men flush their yacht tanks, don't care where it goes
Don’t care where it goes.
got the saturation infestation degradation blues,
The multi national corporate environmental blues.
My meat’s chock full - of drugs I wouldn't take
psychotropic hormones are swimming in the lakes
The air sure stink like diesel gas and glue
Just ain't sure what we're supposed to do
Just ain't sure what we're supposed to do
got the saturation infestation degradation blues,
The multi national corporate environmental blues.
Put a facemask on and take your happy pills
Buy some dirty oxygen & forget about your ills
Suck it up & drink ‘em down, buy it all, just pay the bills
That’s what they need from you, just erase your will
Just erase your will
got the saturation infestation degradation blues,
The multi national corporate environmental blues.
Got the saturation infestation degradation blues,
The multi national corporate environmental blues.
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Heart’s Gonna Bleed
An ocean of her tears, floods over me
Drowning in waves of disharmony
I don’t know, where I can go from here tonight
I don’t where I can go but I’m sure my poor heart’s gonna bleed
Chorus:
She sings La la la la, la la la la , she cries over me
La la la la, la la la la , some are born to misery
Please don’t you say, my dark angel ain’t real
She’s been here in my dreams, ever since I could feel
I don’t know, where I can go, or how to get what I need
I don’t know, where I can go I know that my heart’s gonna bleed
Wandering dark night, there’s blood on the beach,
Hear my angel calling but she’s out of reach
I don’t know, where I can go, or how to get what I need
Crying, crying she tells me my heart’s gonna bleed
She sings La la la la, la la la la , she cries over me.
La la la la, la la la la , some are born to misery
Wondering where my dark angel could be
Dark waves are foaming, wash over me
Horizon is dark now; the sky is on fire, tonight
Crying, crying she tells me that my heart’s gonna bleed
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Jericho River (live)
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I heard a story you might know
Steeped in a libertine kind of glow
Something about a preacher man
Carving a serpentine command
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Something about the preacher man
Sweeping his sanctimonious hand
Over the grief stricken eyes of the fold
Over the grasping ill-fated souls
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Cunning and sly was he, they say
Charmed all the virgins under his sway
How he loved the way the men
Condescended to his command
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
All of those deadly, deadly sins
Spilling without and brimming within
And how we paled at the sound of his name
For all his misery and scandal and shame
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Oh what iniquity coursed through his veins
Ruined the sacred and the profane
Nothing endures in the Gallows now
Nothing will thrive in the bitter ground
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
Over the Jericho River, the ditch
And the Gallows Hills
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Church (live)
03:16
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Church
CHORUS
This feels like a church of sex and death
With me at the head of it.
I have simply no regrets
For what I might have done here.
Verse
I came to you just like a curse
Placed on your quiet town
You have witnessed nothing worse
Than what I’ve said and done here.
The whole town now belongs to me
I’ve bent it to my will
You gave me money, property
I’ve defiled your young girls
I’ve plucked you clean down to the bone,
And the best that you can do
Is ride me out upon the rail
But there’s nothing left for you
CHORUS
Verse
You bowed to me in supplication
Forgot your god, forsook your nation
Raised me to a higher station
Than you’ve ever hoped to have
I let you bask under my glory
Now you yearn to change my story
But you have no power over me
I leave because I want to.
Whipped you to run like dogs before me
Now you say you do abhor me
You beg and plead and do implore me
Too late, for I have won
CHORUS
Verse
I have squandered all your riches
Left your hearts in fetid ditches
Slain your alphas, fucked your bitches
Leering all the while
Come along ye little lambs
Don’t you know I am, I am
Profane and manifesting
The afflictions of your souls?
And as for you pariahs,
Here’s a word from your messiah
Only truth from truthful liars
Will impart your heart’s desire
CHORUS
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Christian D Toronto
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