The Brightness Makes You Blind

from Blood & Bone Adrift by Tall City

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Fairweather friends run away from the rain. They only return to look through your remains. Well, I will never leave you because I've got nowhere to go. I destroyed my destination and forgot my way home. So i wander hidden hills and the nameless valleys, where the saints and their devils are comparing their tallies. If you always look on the bright side of your life, well, the brightness makes you blind. Your heart is full of joy my dear, but you have lost your mind.

I walk fast to stay ahead of the storm. I snuck into hell, so I could get warm. I slept outside of heaven but they would not let me in. The one I love dont love me back - so much for religion. The Lord sold my soul to the Devil for song. The Lord took that song home, but got the lyrics wrong. As far as I'm concerned, when I finally get my turn, horns and haloes are equally hot, so either way I'm getting burned.

If there is a God, then he should try again. If there is a God, well then hes probably your friend. Be careful when confessing all your secret sins, cuz hes got that information and theres no way he can't win.

Breakfast in bed brings bugs into the room. Decorate the dead, invite some thieves into your tomb. Lovers in the park call demons from the dark. The fish demand desert so they overturn the ark. When Jesus was alive, he walked on waves. Now that he is dead, he walks through walls. So how are you so sure I can be saved, when I've never saved up anything at all?

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from Blood & Bone Adrift, released July 15, 2013

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