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Purgation Year: 2007 words/music: bill mallonee

i wrote this song on an old guitar
under the influence of a million stars
and with a head full of heaven and a heart full of hell
with an audible sigh and a cry for help

and if you look real close yeah but not too hard
if you run your fingers across the shards
it's all a broken glass honey there's no doubt
you can fill it up but it all runs out

let your hand be gentle let your gaze be warm
life falls upon me (us) and shadows they all turn
let the doubts disperse and the hope be gathered in
let the curse be drowned as purgation begins

now i've heard stories where lives reverse
i must admit i don't know how it works
oh to be safe oh to be hid
don't know how it feels but i wish i did

if you're a ghost well you're still loved
welcome aboard it's a big club
all of the fragile and all of the fake
ain't no erasing the master tape

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from WPA​/​Circa ("field" recordings), released June 1, 2007
Bill & Muriah

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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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