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I was raised in the valley of the shadow of doubt
Where the stone statues raise up their right hands and shout
Be afraid to live longer than a woman can grieve
And the cruel adulation of those who believe

I traded that valley for the alleys of the East
With their cruel cold white winters, and their cruel cold white police
Tell them bodies, “Quit your piling up,” tell the newly bereaved
“Indictment day is coming if you’ll only believe.”

But them false prophets profiteer while them hypocrites breed
Born again babes apreaching, but they don’t know how to read
Show me two honest people and I’ll grant one reprieve
To the one who says, “Forgive me Lord, I do not believe.”

After I left, he took a half inch blade six times in the back
And he bled out down by those MBTA tracks
Like the marks that he’d hammered down under his sleeves
And he never forgave all of them who believe

But his Holy Ghost traced me all the way to 51st and Pine
In his hand he held a tire iron and a half liter of wine
Don’t let his duplicitous-Christ-mystic tricks fool or deceive
Both hands hold a weapon that can make you believe

But them false prophets profiteer while them hypocrites breed
Born again babes apreaching, but they don’t know how to read
Show me two honest people and I’ll grant one reprieve
To the one who says, “Forgive me Lord, I do not believe.”

Cause God’s glory is the story of a second rate still
It’ll render you blind and against your own will
You’ll hear your pride and ambition, get up and leave
And you’ll never say nothing, and you’ll know you believe

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from Blessings & Blasphemy, released March 24, 2017
Written by Owen Lyman-Schmidt
Arrangement by Driftwood Soldier

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Driftwood Soldier is no average mandolin-bass foot-stomping gutter-folk duo.

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