Name: Parched Earth
Duration: P00H04M21S
Description: Notes: A long time comin. These lyrics are some of the first written of the real new new period (and some of my favorite). The music came first, and so the jacket of words finally had something to hang on. Abrasive vocals. And perhaps a real song?

Parched Earth

from In Between People by simpleton

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Notes: A long time comin. These lyrics are some of the first written of the real new new period (and some of my favorite). The music came first, and so the jacket of words finally had something to hang on. Abrasive vocals. And perhaps a real song?

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God spoke first
Then came the lions
The wind, the sea
The unborn dyin
The mess up ahead
And the sources cryin
About the untold dead
During the days of lyin
Some ask questions
When answers are given
Truth left long ago
Said it was quittin
Felt left out, so rarely used
Leave it to fiction who likes being abused

(And he’s good at it too.)

The animals shook
As the green went gray
History rewritten
In a single day
Penned from the hand
That carried the sword
The sun moves away
Darkness toward.

(Darkness towards)

The whole in the earth
The farmer sews
What once went there
Nobody knows
No crop circles
No drop-zones
Parched earth
Buckles at home

Parched earth buckles at home

The sun moves away, darkness toward
Parched earth buckles at home

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from In Between People, released May 1, 2008

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