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The Law & The Lonesome

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The Law and the Lonesome Jonathan Byrd and Corin Raymond

With the wrath of the law and the lonesome above you and all those who love you behind,
a storm in your rearview and darkness before you, where will you fly to this time?
Only Jesus will go down the road that you’re burning and you should be turning to him.
How can you wade and be washed in the water when the river is dirty as sin?

How can she take you and make you so lonely? You said she was only a friend.
Any fool in his pride who has tried to refuse her can see you’re using again.
The snow’s like a ghost of cocaine on the highway; it shifts and plays tricks with your mind.
The wind is like razors; in only two days, you’ve done two hundred thousand white lines.

You took the wrong way home.

They blasted the bedrock and laid all the blacktop like a snake ‘round the shoulders of God.
Christ on his hilltop and the cop at the truck stop are both only doing their jobs.
You’ve got a double-cross to bear. Now you’ve lost the last friend that you had to lose.
He’s in the ambulance. You’re in the cruiser, with a fatal case of the sucker-punch blues.

You took the wrong way home.

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from The Law and the Lonesome, released January 1, 2009

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Jonathan Byrd Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Preacher's kid, Gulf War veteran, award-winning songwriter, Youtuber, teacher, and creativity coach from North Carolina.

“One of the top 50 songwriters of the last 50 years. ” — Chicago Tribune

“...a folk singer with the heart of a rock 'n' roll band.” — K. Oliver, Free Times. ... more

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