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a protest song.
Revenge is always just a scratch below everybody's skin...

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VOODOO INK words & music Bill Mallonee c.BMI 2017
It came in broad daylight....from hell's deepest reach
It came dressed up in flags....lying through it's teeth
It asked for your allegiance; i could not count the raised hands

Chorus:
And what I wanna know....
do you ever even the score?
with the blood that gets shed, counting the dead?
in the endless war?

Do the math in the battlefields; count the coffins they load
bloodshed begets bloodshed...thus saith the Lord
Revenge is always just a scratch below everybody's skin.

now every bullet was spent....knives back in their sheaths
widows grieving, dressed in black wandering the streets
it's all voodoo ink...stained by a mother's tears

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from FOREST FULL OF WOLVES (2018), released January 27, 2018

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Bill Mallonee

Bill Mallonee is an Americana artist w/ 80 plus albums over a 30 year career. Voted by Paste Music Magazine #65 in their "Top 100 Living Songwriters" poll. He was the
founding member of Vigilantes of Love. He has worked with Mark Heard, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, & Peter Buck from REM.
His most recent work, "Lead On, Kindly Light" is a 23song double Cd released Feb 2020.
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