A Tale Of Tears

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Well a long time ago in a town we don't know there's a story that we've long forgotten,
There's an old stream they say where the bodies might lay where the corpses of ghosts have long rottened,
I can tell you a story of the pain and the glory and the things that make men come undone,
I can tell you a tale of the West and the way of the gun,

(Chorus)
Sinners same the saints, their bodies where they lay and they'll never be moving no more,
They believed hard enough, blood needed be shed, now they're laying all gray on the floor,

Well the bullets they flew as grown men screamed and writhed, their murderers fled, for old men's greed and lies,
The sun will still set and the world will spin on just the same… just the same,

Now that they've bled don't glorify them,
How bout instead we rectify this,
I can see it in your eyes that you really want to try,
Is this hill that you've chosen the one upon which you must die… you must die,

(Chorus)
Sinners same the saints, their bodies where they lay and they'll never be moving no more,
They believed hard enough, blood needed be shed, now they're laying all gray on the floor,

Well the bullets they flew as grown men screamed and writhed, their murderers fled, all for men's greed and lies,
The sun will still set and the world will spin on just the same… just the same,

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from MidnightFires, released October 26, 2021
Written By: Andrew Rodriguez, Mykal Morrison
Produced By: Mykal Morrison
Arrangements By: Mykal Morrison

Recording Engineer: Mykal Morrison
Mixing Engineer: Mykal Morrison
Mastering Engineer: Daniel Colombo

Performance Credits
Vocals: Andrew Rodriguez, Mykal Morrison
Guitar: Mykal Morrison
Bass: Mykal Morrison
Piano: Mykal Morrison, Steven Spencer

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MidnightFires is an Outlaw Soul Duo based out of West Palm Beach, Florida.

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