The Land Where the Dead Men Die.
by @jeremykazoo · @johnkaniecki
Liner Notes
Reviewed this lyric by @johnkaniecki and had to try strumming it out myself. https://write.fawm.org/songs/309029
Based on a lyric fragment he got from @gregwere
Lyrics
By @johnkaniecki
In northwestern Wisconsin the east wind blows like sin And all the farm girl sluts strut around being born again Billy Graham would be preaching outside the honkey-tonk bars I’m just like Jesus Christ darling do you want to see my scars
I wanna live in the land where dead men die I look at the blue sky is it really that high? The Eagles are soaring I’m ignoring Glen Fry I wanna go to the land where dead men die
Well Rita was atheist or maybe agnostic who could tell She wanted to believe in heaven but shunned talk of hell Thumb extended she was hitchhiking anywhere south She proclaims all the same it ain’t wrong if you use your mouth
I wanna live in the land where dead men die I look at the blue sky is it really that high? The Eagles are soaring I’m ignoring Glen Fry I wanna go to the land where dead men die
Daryll was a killer on the loose driving a tractor trailer If I make the FBI’s most wanted I won’t be a failure Rita had a short skirt it made Daryll hurt just to look Pulling over the trucker chuckled I’ll rob her like a crook
I wanna live in the land where dead men die I look at the blue sky is it really that high? The Eagles are soaring I’m ignoring Glen Fry I wanna go to the land where dead men die
All the Sanhedrin are chanting Psalm one twenty-one The babes at the Passover are drunk and they want some fun We all die young are you enjoying this thing called life I’m mad at my momma cause she upset my current wife
Seems like the story needs resolution or at least a solution The obvious answer my friends bloodless revolution Rita was on the pill and Daryll went in for the kill The humor of the rumor has it they’re out there riding still
I wanna live in the land where dead men die I look at the blue sky is it really that high? The Eagles are soaring I’m ignoring Glen Fry I wanna go to the land where dead men die
Love the driving acoustic strumming. Some fab lyrics. This is an entire novel in song! I like the way the characters subtly reveal the hypocrisy of the so-called Christians in the USA. If Christ were to return, surely the first thing he would do would be dismantle the fundamentalist cults that have the gall to say they're doing God's work.