Hand On The Bible

from Trailways by Steve O'Connell

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lyrics

This one's for the alleyways. This ones for the tears.
This ones for the tap swipe critics wasting their best years.
When there's too many profits without any pens,
You got too many saviors and not enough sins.

If you total up the harmony you got what you get.
Some talking heads and some empty bed in a town you’d soon forget.
When I woke from my stupor and I yanked on the shade
I saw his hand on the bible. He was already made

So please, please leave me alone.
I couldn’t wait for a pearly gate
So I made one of stone.

So It’s back to the middle every chance I get.
Back to the home town 'hood then back to the set.
To pretend I am someone, someone you feels
Knowing I’m no-one but someone who steals.

Cuz there are kids in those alleys and there are drunks in the hall.
There are hands so dirty they don’t look like hands at all.
But I can’t pretend to care when all I do is crawl.
If you don’t disturb the dust, you got no chance to fall.

So please, please leave me alone.
I couldn’t wait for a pearly gate
So I made one of stone.

And there is my Jesus. He’s up to no good.
Doin’ tricks with a crucifix made of ashes a soot.
And he’s there in the temple. He's paid for his seat.
Settin’ all the tables and washing no feet.

When I got to the hotel I gathered for the feast.
A bunch of hollers in some stiff white collars tapping their feet.
Cuz the fortune was hungry for 500 slaves.
And fortunately for us none had a face or a name.

So please, please leave me alone.
I couldn’t wait for a pearly gate
So I built one to own.

So please, please, please look away.
I’m making plans for the common man
But just not today.

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from Trailways, released May 7, 2021

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Songwriter Steve O'Connell and producer, multi- instrumentalist Joshua Wentz weave folk pop dreamscapes as Silvergirl.

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