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Slash & Burn (Bonus Track)

from HeartBeat Hymnal by Thom Alan

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Slash and Burn. Too late to Learn
Never had a chance to earn
A living wage. For long hard days. Work
More with less. Less with more
Division between rich and poor
Has grown so wide. There ain’t no changing sides
And you take the land. Nowhere to stand
Left me with an axe in hand. A hatchet and some matches
And a yearning for a different world
For I know this is the wrong way
I’m wounded with each cut I make

I ain’t got no place. So I’ll burn it all away
Stay as long as I can stay. Then I’ll move on.
Take all there is to take. Yeah its going down in flames
Yeah I’m digging my own grave. But there ain’t no other way

Slash and burn
Spit and spurn
Praying that the tides will turn
Poor lives are like the soil and soot
Eroding from the exposed roots
Cycle repeats
There’re mouths to feed
Supplanted in our time of our need
Somewhere wealth dines
And stroke it’s greed
Making profit while men bleed.
Scorched Swidden lands.
Torched ashes damned
By desperate men, chipped axe in hand
Tinder. Flint. Smoke haze amidst
A yearning for a different world
Yearning for a better world but…

Chorus

Stay alive, Stay alive
Only trying To provide
Only trying. To scratch a life
From this hard wood and bitter times
Stay alive, stay alive
Only trying to provide
Only trying to learn to fly
With broken wings and distilled pride
Send the rain. Send the rain
Wash all of our soil away. Wash all of our sins away. Away.

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from HeartBeat Hymnal, track released April 7, 2016

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Thom Alan Lansing, Michigan

Michigan Based: Singer, Songwriter, Farmer, Carpenter, Landscaper, Gutter Cleaner, Adventurer, Generalist. Avid Podcast Listener, Comic Book Reader, and Celebrator of Good Meals. Rumored to sing Disney Songs while Mowing the Lawn ("I've Got No Strings"). Not yet too old for the Mosh Pit at a Slayer Convert. There's music in these bones, and I'm just getting started. ... more

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