Black Gold (bonus track)

from Evident In Better Days by Shortwave Communique

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You take me to the highways
That lead us toward the black gold
I see you on the way out
You're talking like a soldier

I’ve left a bigger mess than the cannons down your streets
my children beckoning for the one that they can't see
they worry about the ghosts that haunt them in their dreams
and you think the same of me

no need for second best when there's aces up your sleeve
I'll cleanse the mother tongue from your mouth as you speak
the struggle only lasts as long as you please
and you'll know that you've been wronged

I hear the rhythm drone over shores of disbelief
a vicious serenade that will swarm in waves of heat
and in this emptiness of searching for relief
I'm confined to what I signed

five years in desert sands, I've returned where they found me
all my friends stayed behind in the warmth of their routines
these colors washed away the light inside of me
it leads me down a lonely road

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from Evident In Better Days, released June 24, 2011

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