It's a brush fire spreading, feeding as it moves.nIt's a disappeared glacier, it's an airborne flu.nIt's your disbelieving eyes locked in concrete miles.nIt's your yawning conscious; it's a lawyer's smile.nIt's an occupied country foaming at the mouth.nIt's a smoking gun and a mushroom cloud.nIt's a military mother with a boy in hell.nIt's a flag draped casket and an oil well.nIt's an Argentine school girl, gagged and bound.nIt's a tortured camp, and it's a long way down.nIt's the constant brace and shock of now.nIt's the whole damn world turned inside out.nnIt’s a march to extinction, with your god in step.nIt’s his name on your mouth; it’s his cross on your neck.nIt’s a farm boy sprinting over desert dirt; he’s panting the “Our Father” in staccato spurts.nIt’s his automatic rifle and it tells no lies, that there’s truth in your stomach there’s no alibi.nBut the trouble lies on the other side, with an equal truth prepping for his holy night.nSince the crescent and the star born came the virgin sky, here’s the call of milk and honey from the afterlife.nAs he eases to the checkpoint he is calm and sure, that collateral damage is the cost of war.nIt’s another bag of bones for the gods to sort, just another bag of bones for the gods to sort.nnThere’s species disappearing, all the birds fly south in a January heat wave in a pulsing crowd.nIt’s an African militia, kids with sub machines.nIt’s a conflict diamond on your bride to be.nIt’s the mission of ratability, you’ll get what’s yours until there’s nothing left over and you’ll get no more.nIt’s not what we’re owed but it’s what we’ve earned and it’s closer than we realize and it’s time now to burn.nnIt’s time now to burn.
Wise and Burn
Kevin Devine
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11.17.10 A Story, A Sneak Alabama Acres Another Bag of Bones Awake in the Dirt Between the Concrete and Clouds Big, Bad Man Billion Bees Billion Bees Brooklyn Boy Brother's Blood Brother's Blood Brother's Blood Carnival Confessional at 6 P.M. Fever Moon Fever Moon (Demo) Fever Moon V2 Fingerprints and Photographs Funerals and Carnivals Go Haunt Someone Else Hand of God Hand of God (Demo) Harvest Moon (Neil Young cover) Heaven Bound and Glory Be Heaven Bound and Glory Be Heaven Bound and Glory Be I Could Be With Anyone I Used To Be Someone It's Only Your Life (Demo) Joey (Concrete Blonde cover) Just Stay Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Less Yesterday, More Today Like Cursing Kids Love me, I'm a liberal Lullaby for a Snow-Faced Girl Luxembourg Me & My Friends Me & My Friends Mesa, Arizona Murphy's Song Off-Screen Part of the Whole Probably (Travelling the EU version) Refugees Refugees She Stayed As Steam She Stayed As Steam (Demo) Sleepwalking Through My Life Tapdance The Ballad of St. Fred The Burning City Smoking The City Has Left You Alone The First Hit The Longer I Lay Here (Pedro the Lion cover) The Weather's Wonderful This Box Is Empty Time To Burn Tomorrow's Just Too Late (newer version) Tomorrows Just Too Late (live) Trouble Untitled (Time To Burn) Wait Out The Wreck What's Keeping Us Young Working in Quiet You Are My Sunshine (Jimmie Davis cover) You Knock Me Out You Won't, You Won't Your Husband Yr Damned Ol' Dad
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