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Turnarounds and Lies

from Ancient Tones by Daniel Payne

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I'm lookin' at some slick ol' politician, he's lying thru his teeth on TV
You know he ain't got no kinda concern for a poor boy, he'd just as soon see me bleed
and throw away my family's every comfort to prop up their industry

Well he puts his bloody hand down on the bible and he holds the other high
And he sends you off to the front lines where the bombs fall, never lost no sleep, never even blinked an eye
And now he's flappin' his lips to the cameras, sendin' everyone off to his heroin fields to die
Everyone so desperate to play that deadly game of turnarounds and lies

Now they done and gone put a black face on a what cause for the multitudes of dollar signs
I know pretty soon they'll be greasin' up the war cogs while we squander off all our fury pickin' sides
In the end we're forced into bondage for to wonder if the preacher man he told us right
Everyone so deadly to play that deadly game of turnarounds and lies

The pharisees stood tall with silver trumpets, cast a golden light on every deed, then turn around and put a cross up for the righteous to die upon and set them free
Keep an eye on the folks out tryin' to keep heaven's door closed and the gates to the cemetery greased

Please tell me that it's all just been a bad dream, that a burnin' world of screams and cries I'm imagining in all my darkest visions ain't fixin' to come alive, til the fist of the poor strikes back with a bloody warning, til the last penitentiary is full of suits and ties
Everyone so desperate to play that deadly game of turnarounds and lies

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from Ancient Tones, released January 29, 2012

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Daniel Payne Lubbock, Texas

Daniel Payne is a Countryblues / folk songwriter from the town of Lubbock, out in the west Texas high plains. His music has traditional country and folk roots and features an edge for compelling and original storytelling.

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