Outside Mike feels the pain.
It's been getting fierce these last three years he'd say.
Heaven knows and I suppose it's only what they say they know
But the pain inside feels the same.
Fall comes now without the rain.
From our throats some civil discourse for a change.
Light the signal fires unfurl the flags from on the highest spires
That the flame inside burns the same.
Burns the same it seems to me
From the tip top of the tallest peak there'd be
A proof so sure it convinces me
That the flame inside burns the same.
Chasing ghosts over seas
That's the part of us that's full of pus and greed.
You can bet the farm, buy firearms, jail the likes of me
But the flame inside burns the same.
Burns the same it seems to me
All this talk of change it's plain its all a scheme
To overthrow our minds upend the truth
But the flame inside burns the same.
credits
from It's Not A Thing,
released July 29, 2018
Words and music by John Mac and the Moraggots. Vocals and instruments performed by John McClellen
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