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The Devil and the Day Laborer

by Heathen Prayer

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1.
The world may make me crack make me bend Make me search for an end Turn my heart black from red Turn my back on everything I’ve said Make me forget every face I’ve met Turn my accomplishments into regrets But the world will never break me Work three jobs still can’t afford shoes Turn everything I write into the blues Turn my love into a choice I can never choose But the world will never break me Dominate the hustle Dominate one life in a detestable world Empty pockets, an endless hustle But the world will never break me Make me crack and make me bend Break my heart my spirit and my hands But I will never break, only dominate
2.
A vampire reflecting empty space A mirage trying to save face There’s nothing left for me in this place There’s nothing left in my place Cohabitat of nothingness that costs your arms and legs Crippled burned out and hollow To pay for a roof that’s always falling through A ceiling that shatters with the spider's weight Your worth is your own, your worth is your own This face is a mask There’s nowhere to go, forever alone Every day a new mask How many times will you sacrifice yourself Just to live below a roof that’s always falling through? Your wishes are never coming true Nothing exists yet nothing and no one escapes
3.
Neverwhere 03:56
You can’t stay here but you can never go home again When it’s 4 am And there’s a flashlight in a window Four glass walls empty just like me Voices I can hear Faces I can’t see You can’t share $20 just Like you can’t share running water And it’s true you can never go home again The streets still call my name But they will never love me The streets still call my name But home is nowhere And never was
4.
I hear the devil singing She sings my name to a sweet tune She singing “something wicked Gon’ come to you, She sings the deadly rhythm hellhounds gon’ come for you” You made a deal with the devil And the six strings that drew your blood You signed your name and kissed the lips your soul is gone Firewalk with me I hear the devil singing fire walk with you She sings the deadly rhythm Hell hounds on your trail I hear the devil singing fire walk with me Something wicked this way comes To tear your flesh from your bones Firewalk with me Firewalk with you
5.
It’s a waste of heartbeats and love songs It’s another date night with a broken reflection Another unjust amplified reaction From a lifetime of trauma That’s never changed even though I have It’s a diet of pills and powders It’s a routine of highs and downers What seems like a million years And a million thoughts that beg unanswered questions Was I ever enough and if so when it never changes the outcome Cause here I am and if I was ever enough You never told me when never told me to shine even though I killed for it You never told me to hold your heart even though I know the moments between its beats That were meant for me, they just never belonged to me a diet of pills and powders Endless nights of you without me
6.
Dope sick on a sixteen-hour shift The lines are blurred, multiple realities A speedball on credit to make it through the day Another day that ends in “why?” Another fucking voice inside your head Skeleton key, every face is a door Not a window or mirror Nothing is real anymore Every possible reality exists to me Every face is a door Every door leads to here Here is where the fear gathers Where the voice of god disappears. Dope sick on a sixteen-hour shift I’m not the only one You’re not the only one.

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Recorded July 30 and 31 in the year of our lord 2022

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released November 22, 2022

Engineered & Mixed by John Howard at WARHORSE RECORDINGS
Mastered by Brad Boatright at AUDIOSIEGE

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Microphone and Lyrics: Anthony Crupi
Guitar: Peter Kowalsky
Drums: Carla James
Bass: Blake Sansbury

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Heathen Prayer Atlanta, Georgia

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