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Your Lies Will Dig Your Grave

by Kyle Shevlin

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Watch your mouth Zophar, Bildad and Eliphaz Your words will come and bite you in the end you might think your health implies your innocent But you'll find your souls among the damned But you'll find your souls among the damned Each of you insists that you're superior That you've been given visions of the truth Relentless with advice for your inferiors But I promise wisdom dies with you But I promise wisdom dies with you All your lies will dig your graves And wash them white with lime and slake And you'll find your lives a pathless waste of breath Leading to death Continue adding insult to my injuries I've only lost health, my home, my kids Yet you tear me down into these pieces Forgive them for they know not what they did, Father Forgive them for they know not what they did
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Pottery to scratch my skin Dogs to lick my wounds A wife that thinks that I should die And friends who think so too And friends who think so too Seven days in silence spent Before I made my case Then when I finally did The hatred came my way The hatred came my way Sorry that what I'm going through Has exposed the fear inside you Little worlds that you hold on to Are crumbling 'fore your eyes Know your minds can't entertain that Maybe God has made mistakes and All the pain that I am facing Can't be justified 10 of my seeds are gone They'll never bloom again I laid them in their flower beds And said, “I get what I get” And said, “I get what I get” Now that all I have is gone All I have is death What is life but a road to One final, pointless breath One final, pointless breath You don't get to decide The way I'm supposed to cry You don't get to decide The way I'm supposed to cry
3.
Mother, Mother tell my why Mother, Why not let me die? Why bring me into this life? Naked, Naked I came Naked, Clothed and ashamed Can't hide the scars and the pain Rue the day I was born Close the womb and shut the doors Why did your hands care for me? Curse the night I was conceived Damn your breasts and damn your knees I'd rather I stayed asleep At rest with the ghosts and the kings Mother, Mother who's to blame? Mother, please answer me! Why must I now feel this way? Mother, Mother here I am Mother, I'm barely a man I've lost all that I ever had
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I hear the smiles on their faces telling lies Using words of fairy tales like righteous alibis Each of them insists that I'm the one to blame If only they could come to understand the fiction of their claims Woe, Woe If I've told you once, I know I'll tell you twice Your accusations miss their mark, I reject what they imply That my character is flawed, that I need grace I have always been a righteous man, for each one of my days Woe, Woe I won't be afraid of suffering along the way I won't fear what I don't know Though there'll come a day when finally I will find the grave I won't fear what I don't know I made a promise once, I won't forget my words A weaker man would hide complaints like scars beneath his shirt But I'd rather speak and then be proven wrong Than to live my life inside restraints and feign to carry on Woe, Woe And a blemish you won't find I am clean in heart and mind So strike me where I stand Because I refuse To speak a word that's not the truth

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Your Lies Will Dig Your Grave is a four song EP based on the book of Job. Each of the songs on this compilation is written from the perspective of Job, with some added creative license and a whole lot of Biblical plagiarism.

This EP is not for the faint at heart. The story of Job is a depressing one, and his pain and anguish have much to teach a world that too often ignores such things. Only listen if you are ready and willing to sit and ponder the frailty of the human condition and the aches and pains of a world suffering under the weight of violence, injustice and cruelty.

-Kyle Shevlin

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released May 7, 2013

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Kyle Shevlin Portland, Oregon

While other bands and musicians waste their time writing songs about breakups, Kyle Shevlin is dedicated to writing songs of substance.

Singing with the aching heart of a man battered by time, Shevlin delivers with refreshing honesty.

His latest work, Your Lies Will Dig Your Grave, is a musical trek through the book of Job, and should not be listened to lightly.
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