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ONE MOMENT STANDS OUT words & music: Bill Mallonee
admin BMI published by "Once More, This Time With Feeling" music c.2022

I remember it just like it was yesterday.
One moment stands out above all the rest
And everything bathed in candle-light adorning your face
And that bourbon kiss, followed by embrace...

chorus 1
Taste it's Hope. Tastes it's Joy
the banishment of noise (alt: drown the static, kill switch the noise)
that modernity's decades of devices has gainfully employed
to shackle down your spirit & rain on the parade
of that kid beneath your skin, rejoicing in the day...

Now the messages got garbled
But, I'm not one to boast
You get good at chasing phantoms
You get good at seeing ghosts
I count myself an enemy
See, I'm no good for my health
Lord, I asked You for a heart of gold
'Cause i didn't have one myself

Train-wrecks, wayward souls, gospel prodigals
Puttin' the asphalt to the test
When persuasion lives in your fingertips
Piss & venom can do the rest
Now, words can be like flowers
And words can be like bombs
Or they can truly be like falling,
Falling into Your arms

You can her freeze-framed forever smiling
Her face turned upwards towards the sun
She's a rock we all could be, a gift to each & everyone
Now, the wind blows leaves of memory past
We arrange these shards of our stained glass
Some we hallow...some we crash
God's forever settin' bones

chorus 2
Taste the Hope. Taste the Joy
Drown the static, Kill-switch the noise
That modernity's decades of weaponry has gainfully employed
to cauterize your spirit & rain on the parade
of that kid beneath your skin, rejoicing in the day,
of that kid beneath your skin, rejoicing in the day...

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from HERE IT OPENS WITH A PRAYER, BUT IT CLOSES WITH A SONG (2022), released May 13, 2022
Bill Mallonee electric & acoustic guitars, bass guitar, drums, lap steel, vocals
Muriah Rose: harmony vocals
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. ... more

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