Key: G major
Verse 1
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Raised on words like "punishment"
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and "God will get you
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If you don't do what you're told."
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Nuns turned children into fearful right
handed little
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Servants of the Lord
Verse 2
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b fell down on Hiroshima,
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The year she turned sixteen
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And she said,
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"There is something very wrong here.
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Do you know what I mean? Do you
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know what I mean?
Verse 3
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in my head
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the preacher said
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Said this world will be the death of me
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I know it will, it's bound to be
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Bound to be"
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Verse 4
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Satchel full of broken hopes
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That she'd never send
Her mama sitting on the
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front porch step
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Daddy frowning in the darkened doorway,
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waving his regret
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Then she was jumping on the Santa Fe,
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summer night in 1947
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Bound for God knew where
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struction fast approaching.
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I feel it in the air. I
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feel it in the air.
Verse 5
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And I got visions forming in my head
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(See the blood on the horizon)
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And I keep hearing what
the preacher said
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(Said the truth will set you free)
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Said this world will be
the death of me
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(I got no one to rely on)
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I know it will, it's bound to be."
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(Except for me...)
Verse 6
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she met a hobo named Old John
They hunkered down in a gazebo,
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and chose a star to gaze upon
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Old John said he could see her slipping,
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and he asked her what was wrong
She said, "The rope I had been
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gripping turned to sand
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And now it's gone,
Interlude 1
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Verse 7
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Can't you see the writing on
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Plain as VJ day.
Hear the barking of the
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Drowning dogs,
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frozen like so many Eisenhower
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Statues in Pompei. I think
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Old John, to numb my heart,
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Atoms through the sky."
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She said,
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"This world it sure ain't no place to live in
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But it ain't no place to die. No it ain't
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no place to die..."
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CHORUS
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Verse 8
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BILL DEASY: lead vocals,
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acoustic guitar
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DAVE
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RAY DEFADE: drums
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JOANNA ITHEN: vocals ("See the
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blood on the horizon." etc.)
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SCOTT BLASEY & KELSEY BARBER: background
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vocals
Outro 1
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