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CAVE IN (Faith Seeking Understanding, Or The Other Way Around)

from HERE IT OPENS WITH A PRAYER, BUT IT CLOSES WITH A SONG (2022) by Bill Mallonee

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CAVE IN (Faith Seeking Understanding, Or The Other Way Around)
words & music bill mallonee
admin BMI published by "Once More, This Time with Feeling" music c.2022

Hand me that dusty clipboard
It's time to call the roll
Just answer me by saying "present."
Or let silence take it's toll
Now, some of us have taken flight
With our coal dust souls this day
'Cause the earth is filled w/ violence
Just like the Bible says

Let there be light no cities left in the dark
But no seems to recognize deserted cities of the heart
Words stretched out to the breaking point
It's all wrecked up 3 miles down
Faith seeking understanding or the other way around
Give me that dusty clipboard
On this the saddest of all days
Just answer me by saying "present."
Or let silence have her say

chorus:
Better tell it with tears
Ya' better speak it with sighs
Ya never know, ya' never know, ya' never know
When you're saying goodbye

Now the West wasn't won with liquor
The West wasn't won with guns or gold
No, no my friend, the West was won
With our coal dust soul
There's widows & more orphans
On this the saddest of all days
And the earth is filled with violence
Just like the Bible says

Better tell it with tears
You better speak it with sighs
You never know, you never know, you never know
When you're saying goodbye

credits

from HERE IT OPENS WITH A PRAYER, BUT IT CLOSES WITH A SONG (2022), released May 13, 2022
Bill Mallonee: electric & acoustic guitars, vocals, bass guitar, drums, lap steel, harmonies
Bill Pratt: pedal steel

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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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