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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Comes To Life (New single released March 14th, 2024), NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, & WEST, ABOVE, BELOW & WITHIN (single from Orphan Songs), HERE IT OPENS WITH A PRAYER, BUT IT CLOSES WITH A SONG (2022), A CLAMORING OF GHOSTS (2021), THE LOT OF EVERYMAN (a free download today), STUNNED (an anniversary song), "LEAD ON, KINDLY LIGHT" & "THIS WORLD & ONE MORE" (2020), ORPHAN SONGS (2018), and 83 more.
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BONE OF MY BONE words and music: bill mallonee
Let’s, see I guess it’s been...almost 2 years, my friend
since she left my side
to cross over...from my arms
that River a thousand miles wide
Baby, you were the jewel in that Carolina school
but rendering was my humble trade
had a little schooling...maybe I could have gone further
but...there were wars to be made
chorus:
now all that’s carved in stone
and all that’s writ in ink
all you though that you could bank on
well, it’s not what ya’ think
started fallin’ off the radar
started fallin’ off the map
between the heartache and the stars I couldn’t catch
between the heartache and the stars I couldn’t catch
the fragrance you would wear that lingered in your hair
your eyes were stars...and all that I could see
we’d dance the world to bed with Glenn Miller in our heads
honey, you always got the best of me
I clean off those dust vents in this period of adjustment
and I still do your “honey-do” list
but the light in this room on those late afternoons
...just bring and ache...and loneliness
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Into our own skin
03:44
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Strand of Stars
06:35
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PLOWSHARES INTO SWORDS
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Plowshares Into Swords words & music bill mallonee BMI 2008
1. Now the drums? They are pounding and the sabres they're a rattling
flags are running up the poles
lotta prayers gettin' prayed
Brass sections getting' their say
A lotta noise to be made when they beat plowshares into swords.
when they beat plowshares into swords.
2. They're splitin' into to factions and their knee-jerk reactions
all these generals sittin' 'round gettin' bored
how does a single drop of blood turn into a flood?
I guess black magic happens when they beat plowshares into swords
When they beat plowshares into swords
when they beat plowshares into swords.
3. You can't estimate the costs. You can't get back what got lost
There ain't no point in really keeping score
nothing new up on the table since Cain took out Abel
repercussions? they just happen when they beat plowshares into swords
when they beat plowshares into swords.
Bridge: Now babe, the sky is blue
and i 'd love to dream a dream with you
forever & a day it's you I would adore
but, it seems like there's always one man
whose got some kind of other plan
they keep you in step and march you off to war
4. Now, we're all waiting for the shoe to drop
they're all smiling for the photo-ops|
but the boxes on the runway tell the score
drums keep on a-pounding
grace? it keeps drowning
lotta of shit just happens when they beat plowshares into swords
when they beat plowshares into swords.
5. and the tears fall like rain; there's no medicine of such pain
darkness laughs and wins again when they beat plowshares into swords.
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I'M GOING DOWN
03:57
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God, it's Christmas
05:54
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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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