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[hippiechick]

How Come?
by Ray Lamontagne
www.raylamontagne.com

(The cd is AWESOME, btw !)

People on the street now
Faces long and grim
Souls are growing heavy
And faith is growing thin
Fear - they gettin' stronger
Feel them on the rise
Hopelessness got some by the throat
You can see it in their eyes

I said how come ?
How come ?

Everybody on a shoestring
Everybody on hold
Everybody on an old jet plane
Crossin' their fingers and their toes
Government man spins his politics
Til they've got you pinned
Everybody trying to reach out to each other
Don't know where to begin

I said how come ?
How come ?

How come I can't tell the free world from a living hell ?
How come ?
How come all I see is a child of God in misery ?
I said, how come ?

The pistol as a prophet
Bullet some kind of lord and king
Pain is the only promise that the so called 'savior' gonna bring
Love can be a liar
Justice can be a thief
And freedom is an empty cup
From which everybody wanna drink

I said how come ?
How come I can't tell the free world from a living hell ?
How come ?
How come all I see is a child of God in misery ?

It's just man killin' man killin' man killin' man killin' man
I don't understand ...


:hippie: