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Doug Davis - Blade Touch Bone

from Round 30, Week 9 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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This song is based on the eighth short story in Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard To Find and Other Stories collection, "A Late Encounter With the Enemy."

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Five foot four in full dress greys
riding out my hours in a Chickamauga haze
don’t know who you people seem to think I might be
my knees are rusty hinges, got the rot in my feet

lots of pretty girls all looking to dance the big dance
I’d know just what to do if someone gave me the chance
there’s a hole in my head, it’s growing deeper than sin
it’s where the slow, black music from the night’s coming in

don’t know how I come to be here
I don’t remember my name
Is this some kind of a game
I wish they’d all just leave me to be
But sure as Shiloh was won
I’ll have my day in the sun
You people see what I’ve done
There’s gonna be a reckoning one day
Until the blade touch the bone

Ask me how I stay so very young
I kiss the pretty girls, every one

Goddamn every goddamn thing to hell
The sword still shines if you polish it well
Got no time . for a life slipped past
But I would’ve danced the dance if you’d ever only asked

don’t know how I come to be here
I don’t remember my name
Is this some kind of a game
I wish they’d all just leave me to be
But sure as Shiloh was won
I’ll have my day in the sun
You people see what I’ve done
There’s gonna be a reckoning one day
Until the blade touch the bone

oh god, where is that gunfire? I can see the ashes climb
stop these words, I can’t do more than one thing at a time
they’ve come to speak their grievance, these faces I forgot
I’m drowning in this black parade, my parting sorrows shot

don’t know how I come to be here
I don’t remember my name
Is this some kind of a game
I wish they’d all just leave me to be
But sure as Shiloh was won
I’ll have my day in the sun
You people see what I’ve done
There’s gonna be a reckoning one day
Until the blade touch the bone

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from Round 30, Week 9, released January 25, 2021

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