Burn It Down

from Songs From The Middle by Eddie Perfect, the Brodsky Quartet, the Australian National Academy Of Music and Iain Grandage

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When the old priest visited
He spoke of miracles and said
That people bled like Jesus did
And how he put his clothes on wet
And seconds later they were dry
The awful ways that Christians died
Their bloody corpse dissolved in lime
The Romans and their hungry lions

Is it any wonder we tried to burn it down?
Half and hour with Father Brown
And is it any wonder we tried to burn it down?

Drinking in a small reserve
For kicks and working up the nerve
For kissing girls to kill the time
And necking Stone's Green Ginger Wine
I saw you vomit in the bin
The curtains let the sunlight in
The drawn out death of innocence
The murderer left no fingerprints

And is it any wonder we tried to burn it down?
Half the town's in dressing gowns
And is it any wonder we tried to burn it down

Down
Down
Burn it down

God never was or is no more
We're smashing all the went before
The beauty out with all the pain
And everything that bears his name
To hail the new enlightenment
A multitude of talking heads
Who live inside a house of words
And clip the wings of flightless birds

Is it any wonder we try to burn it down?
Half a life in this old town
And is it any wonder we try to burn it down?

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from Songs From The Middle, released May 26, 2015

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