Christmas
Merry Christmas everyone
Thin Blue Flame
I became a thin blue flame
polished on a mountain range
and over the fields I flew
wrapped up in a royal blue...
I became a thin blue wire
that held the world above the fire
and so it was I saw behind
Heaven's just a thin blue line
If God's up there he's in a cold dark room
He bent down and made the world in seven days
And ever since he's been walking away...
I became a thin blue stream
the smoke between asleep and dreams
and in that clear blue undertow
I saw a royal city far below
borders soft with refugees
Streets a'swimming with amputees
its a bible or a bullet they put over your heart
its getting harder and harder to tell them apart
days are nights and the nights are long...
...now the wolves are howling at our door
singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord
bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round
they're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found
if what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high
it's a hell of a heaven we must go to when we die...
...Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance...
I woke beneath a clear blue sky
the sun a shout the breeze a sigh
my old hometown and the streets I know
were wrapped up in a royal blue
i heard my friends laughing out across the fields
the girls in the gleaming and the birds on the wheel
the raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay
cicadas electric in the heat of the day
a run of the three sisters and the flush of the land
and the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand
the straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts
they were coming together they were pulling apart
and angels everywhere were in my midst
in the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed
I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above
Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up
So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air
only a full house gonna have a prayer.
-Josh Ritter
I miss my friends
I miss my mind
I miss me
I miss
Thin Blue Flame
I became a thin blue flame
polished on a mountain range
and over the fields I flew
wrapped up in a royal blue...
I became a thin blue wire
that held the world above the fire
and so it was I saw behind
Heaven's just a thin blue line
If God's up there he's in a cold dark room
He bent down and made the world in seven days
And ever since he's been walking away...
I became a thin blue stream
the smoke between asleep and dreams
and in that clear blue undertow
I saw a royal city far below
borders soft with refugees
Streets a'swimming with amputees
its a bible or a bullet they put over your heart
its getting harder and harder to tell them apart
days are nights and the nights are long...
...now the wolves are howling at our door
singing bout vengeance like it's the joy of the Lord
bringing justice to the enemies not the other way round
they're guilty when killed and they're killed where they're found
if what's loosed on earth will be loosed up on high
it's a hell of a heaven we must go to when we die...
...Oh it's hell to believe there ain't a hell of a chance...
I woke beneath a clear blue sky
the sun a shout the breeze a sigh
my old hometown and the streets I know
were wrapped up in a royal blue
i heard my friends laughing out across the fields
the girls in the gleaming and the birds on the wheel
the raw smell of horses and the warm smell of hay
cicadas electric in the heat of the day
a run of the three sisters and the flush of the land
and the lake was a diamond in the valley's hand
the straight of the highway and the scattered out hearts
they were coming together they were pulling apart
and angels everywhere were in my midst
in the ones that I loved in the ones that I kissed
I wondered what it was I'd been looking for up above
Heaven is so big there ain't no need to look up
So I stopped looking for royal cities in the air
only a full house gonna have a prayer.
-Josh Ritter
I miss my friends
I miss my mind
I miss me
I miss