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Rock & Roll

from Raven Hotel by Matt Harlan

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The holy ghost and all his friends were throwing out their useless battle plans
Where “peace be with you” and the last “amen” looked just like bullets in a gun.
The earthly sinners closed their eyes, elected leaders they could idolize
And said, “We’ve come too far to compromise.” They said, “What’s done is done.”

“Don’t it make you wanna rock n’ roll?”
We couldn’t play that song today.
We’re swimming in the foreign policy.
We’d miss the irony anyway.
Still they’re singing sweet and soulful
We just can’t recognize the words
John, the relevance is gone, we’ve got a scarecrow for a song but we can’t move a single bird.

“I voted for the living end,” I heard a young one tell an older man.
“I’ll have a mansion in the promised land. The Revelation’s at the door.”
I saw a poster choosing sides, but not one person seemed to have it right.
Still they agreed that it was worth the fight, “We just can’t take it anymore.”

“Don’t it make you wanna rock n’ roll?”
Twist and shout the blues away.
We’re on the edge of someone else’s dream.
We’re probably standing in the way.
Still they’re singing sweet and soulful
We just can’t recognize the words
John, the relevance is gone, we’ve got a scarecrow for a song but we can’t move a single bird.

“Don’t it make you wanna rock n’ roll?”
Stoning saviors in the streets.
Dropping bombs in foreign neighborhoods
While half the world is fast asleep.
Still they’re singing sweet and soulful
Sick and spinning in the sound.
John, the relevance is gone, sold our spirit for a song and left it buried in the ground.

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from Raven Hotel, released June 24, 2014

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Matt Harlan Houston, Texas

Matt Harlan is a troubadour of the first degree, bringing songs of bus-stops, coffee-shops and lives overlooked to stages across his home-state of Texas, the USA and Europe. His expressive vocals recall Chris Smither and Chris Knight, shading his poignant songs with soaring heart and aching grit. ... more

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