Communion In The Ashes

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This city that I live in is pounding like a drum.
It sounds like electricity with the faintest human hum.
These gates and walls divide us. We have no common hymns.
Sometimes the dread’s so heavy, it feels like a phantom limb.

When the bridges are all been burned
And they’re warring over matches,
Let’s hold a new communion in the ashes.

When the fire came, we could smell it coming.
The flames were moving fast and everybody started running.
Some folks didn’t make it. Some lost all they had.
But I’m glad I didn’t lose you even though it got so bad.

When the bridges are all burned
And they’re warring over matches,
Let’s hold a new communion in the ashes.

There used to be a blueprint for dignity and hope,
But the threads have all unraveled at the end of this old rope.
So Goodbye San Mateo. And Goodbye Golden Gate.
I hear that they were beautiful, but we were born too late.
If you’re feeling lost and lonely, and afraid of what’s to come,
I hope that you won’t drop out, give up, or get numb.
Just find a drum to beat on. Pick up the guitar and strum.
It don’t matter what you look like. It don’t matter where you’re from.

When the bridges are all burned
And they’re warring over matches,
Let’s hold a new communion in the ashes

When the bridges are all burned.
Let’s congregate the masses.
Let’s hold a new communion in the ashes.

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from Communion In The Ashes, released March 29, 2019

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