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John Prine - "That's How Every Empire Falls"

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That's How Every Empire Falls · John Prine

Fair and Square EP


℗ 1The Orchard Music (im Auftrag von Oh Boy Records); ARESA, BMI - Broadcast Music Inc. und 5 musikalische Verwertungsgesellschaften


Vocals: John Prine
Writer: John Prine

Lyrics:
He caught a train from Alexandria, just a broken man in flight
Runnin' scared with his devils, sayin' prayers all through the night
But mercy can't find him, not in the shadows where he calls
Forsaking all his better angels, that's how every empire falls

The bells ring out on Sunday morning like echoes from another time
All our innocence and yearning and sense of wonder left behind
Oh gentle hearts remember, What was that story? Is it lost?
For when religion loses vision, that's how every empire falls

He toasts his wife and all his family, the providence he brought to bear
They raise their glasses in his honor although this union they don't share
A man who lives among them was still a stranger to them all
For when the heart is never open, that's how every empire falls

Padlock the door and board the windows, put the people in the street
"It's just my job," he says, "I'm sorry," and draws a check, goes home to eat
At night he tells his woman, "I know I hide behind the laws"
She says, "You're only taking orders", that's how every empire falls

A bitter wind blows through the country, a hard rain falls on the sea
If terror comes without a warning, there must be something we don't see
What fire begets this fire, like torches thrown into the straw?
If no one asks, then no one answers, that's how every empire falls

Country-Legende John Prine (73) an den Folgen von Corona verstorben. R.I.P. John Prine war hoch verehrt u.a. von Bob Dylan und Kris Kristofferson. hier sein Song aus dem Jahre 1975 "That's the Way the World Goes Round"
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