Up in Flames

from Bless Your Heart by Billy Simons Jr.

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From somewhere near Odessa
There are messages a'coming out
And throwing strokes across the midnight sky
It starts with sudden silver flashes
Congregations brought to ashes
Some pray to live some pray to die
We could have done more with a course of action
But now being right brings no satisfaction.

It’s a white sky
Then a hard rain
Say your goodbyes
From your airplane
There’s a thunderclap
And then it starts to happen
When your whole world's up in flames

Through thickened thieves and follied friends
There’s always time to love again
I’ll sit in your remembrance
In honor of tonight
Oh this is our trajectory
This cruel and crooked odyssey
This old man and his wicked sea
Who lives and breathes to fight
Where is your savior granting safe asylum?
Oh There is no commander on a sinking island.

In an old town in an old cathedral
Those denying pills and decrying needles
Who don’t care for greed or good and evil
All the people they all pray
Then the white tails pull the old bows
And the old strings play a sad note
And the choir sings as the bolides float
And the music plays til the songbird chokes

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from Bless Your Heart, released October 20, 2018

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