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The Wages of a Man Unbound

from Blues For A Holy Ghost by The Reverend John DeLore

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The Wages of a Man Unbound
Words & Music by John DeLore

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The Wages of a Man Unbound
Words & Music by John DeLore

The wages of my honesty was a cold and empty room,
But the wages of my white lies was an overflowing cup.
I drank it up and I swallowed it down.
I spun around in circles until I fell to the ground.
Words of a prophet and the tears of a clown.
These are the wages of a man unbound.

I chased a running rabbit to a far and distant town.
I had the same dream a hundred nights until I wrote it down.
I set it to a melody, and I liked the way it sounds.
When I sing it on a corner all the people they gather round.
A pallet on some stranger’s floor and I pass the hat around.
These are the wages of a man unbound.

We built a couple towers and they swayed up in the clouds.
We broke an ancient mirror and the towers came a tumbling down.
You danced for forty nights in a blood red hand-me-down.
You never been too good for me, but you’re fun to have around.
The blood above my doorway, the ashes on the ground.
These are the wages of a man unbound.

You said charity is like a window that lets the arrows through,
But an arrow through the heart is better than a room without a view.
And it’s true what you say when it’s somebody else’s town.
I guess it’s just another way to keep a body down.
Strange birds in the sky and the ashes on the ground.
These are the wages of a man unbound.

A season for the dreamer, an army on the ground.
These are the wages of a man unbound.

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from Blues For A Holy Ghost, released August 8, 2016
The Wages of a Man Unbound
Words & Music by John DeLore

Mixed by Rick Kwan
Mastered by Justin Shturtz

Recorded by John DeLore, except
*Pedal Steel recorded at Party Slamland Amusement Park,
Hamburg, Germany
*Organ recorded at Blackler Mastering

Drums - Jason Isaac
Bass - John “Better Bet on Betty” Bettencourt
Pedal Steel - Ollie Samland
Piano - Aya Kato
Backing Vox - Grace McLean
Organ - Kevin Blackler
Harmonica, Vox, Rhythm Guitar, Yamaha PS55 - Rev JD

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