(Lyrics and Video ) Another Bag Of Bones Lyrics Kevin Devine

Another Bag Of Bones Lyrics Kevin Devine

It´s a brushfire spreading
feeding as it moves
It´s a disappeared glacier
it´s an airborne flu
It´s your disbelieving eyes locked in concrete miles
It´s your yawning conscious and your lawyer´s smile
It´s an occupied country
foaming at the mouth
No smoking gun
no mushroom cloud
It´s a military mother with a boy in hell
And it´s a flag draped casket down an oil well
It´s an Argentina school girl
gagged and bound
It´s a torture camp
it´s a long way down
It´s the constant brace and shock of now
It´s the whole damn world turned inside out
all right

It´s a march to extinction with your god in step
It´s his name in your mouth
it´s his cross on your neck
It´s a farm boy sprinting over desert dirt
And he´s panting the ´Our Father´ in staccato spurts
now that´s his automatic rifle and it tells no lies
That´s his truth in your stomach
it´s no alibi
But the trouble lies on the other side

With an equal truth prepping for his holy night
He sees his crescent and the star in the virgin sky
He hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife
And as he eases to the check point
he is calm and sure
It´s collateral damage
it´s the cost of war

It´s another bag of bones for the gods to sort
It´s just another bag of bones for the gods to sort

It´s the species disappearing
all the birds fly south
In a January heat wave and a pulsing crowd
It´s an African militia
kids with sub machines
It´s a conflict diamond on your bride to be
It´s the dispossessed lining up every gate
It´s the facts worth facing
faced way too late
It´s the mission of modernity
go get what´s yours´
´Til there´s nothing leftover to get no more
And it´s not what were owed but it´s what we´ve earned
And it´s closer than we realized that it´s time now
to burn

It´s time now to burn
Oh
it´s time now to burn

Brand new music video for Kevin Devine's 'Another Bag of Bones' off the 2009 album 'Brother's Blood'.

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