A song about an overheard phone call where a woman who was convinced that God told her to move to Denver.
lyrics
(((took some kids from staten island
took a boat and we headed south
took a violence to a milk man
shot him right above his mouth
looked out from between my bars
and prayed as hard as I could manage
asked for a place where I could go
to reclaim my proper spiritual balance
and then from nowhere up on mars
I heard the bleeting of a lamb - "bah"
between the honking of all the cars
deep in the hot summer of sam.
listen, can you hear him?)))
still got some money in a bank account east
of the river where they dump all the old bodies.
i've started selling old tin cans to the people
who don't seem to have any hobbies.
i feel sorry for them,
cause i was chosen,
just listen,
he's talkin to me!
God said, "Denver, Colorado"
guess i'll have to start moving all my stuff
out to the far frontier
pullin' out west to old colorado
leave my family here
i feel sorry for them,
cause i was chosen,
just listen,
he's talkin to me!
(thank you God for this amazing day
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
i who have died am alive again today,
and it's the sun's birthday, and the light and the breeze
thank you God for this amazing chance
I'm gonna learn to dance
and make a realballroom dancer)
and when he talks, you know you listennn
credits
from Hell on Earth 2013 LP#3,
released March 27, 2014
produced/engineered - William Chaffin @ Magic Bean Studios
bass/lead guitar - Zach Shapiro
drums/vox - Drake Thomas Myers
additional guitars - Buck Troup
copyright ddean cassidy, 2014.
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