Down The Drain

Bishop Allen "Start Again" from the forthcoming album 'Lights Out', available on CD/ LP/ Digital, on Dead Oceans, August 19, 2014

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Bishop Allen "Start Again" from the forthcoming album 'Lights Out', available on CD/ LP/ Digital, on Dead Oceans, August 19, 2014

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Bishop Allen - Start Again

Allston

For Gibby

I wrote this song after the tragedy in Newtown, CT. 

It's an angry song, because I am angry. I'm devastated, and desperate to do something. 

It is directed at the NRA, because they are the biggest, clearest villain in a story that is full of villains.

And if you also want to be heard, I want you to add your voice to this call for action -- literally. Download the song, record yourself singing along on the last chorus, and re-upload the new audio file with your overdubbed track (or send me the .WAV file and I can mix it for you). 

My hope is that our many unified voices can drown out the well-financed spiel of the NRA. 

Chords & Lyrics:
They Make Angels
Copyright 2013 by Jon Gorey

Verse:  Am7  G   D  /  G   D/F#   Em  /  Am   Bm  D  /  Em  B7  Em  /   C  /   B
Chorus: G   B7  Em  /  C   E  Am  /  D  D7  G  C  /  G  D  G

Every time a gunshot rings
An angel gets a pair of wings
The old boys of the NRA
Are making angels every day
They make angels, and it pays

How can you defend your right
To harness military might?
The blood of children on your hands
Twenty slaughtered innocents
Their blood is on your hands

So lay down your guns
In the blood they have spilled
Give up your fight
Defending my right to be shot and killed

Now you want to arm the schools
To extend your martial rule
Your callous war on common sense
Is gruesome in its consequence
Your war has no defense

So members of the NRA
Do you believe in Judgment Day?
Are you prepared to take the blame
When Jesus calls you out by name
When your soul Hell comes to claim?

Lay down your guns
In the blood they have spilled
Give up your fight
Defending our right to be shot and killed

Every time a gunshot rings
An angel gets a pair of wings
The old boys of the NRA
Are making angels every day
They'll make angels... until we say

"Lay down your guns
Clean up the blood they have spilled
Give up your fight
Defending our right to be shot and killed"

They Make Angels

Minor blues/bebop tune as written by Benny Green

They Make Angels

Jon Gorey

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