Broken Truth
Tim Grimm
5:03GONE They say it's getting warmer- it takes a little time There's music in the cafe now, drinks all in a line No one knows the time they say, and no one knows the day Half of us don't give a damn and the rest just stay away Gone Something's gone I saw it in a headline, I read it in a psalm It slipped into the courtroom when the judges were all gone Then drove across the country toward the southern border wall We sit across the table, I counted off the steps But the lights have all been broken- we can't see past ourselves I'd like to call you brother but the bridges have all burned And the things you say without a mask bring darkness to this world *Gone There's broken wings and crippled creeks and crooked little hearts And the man who brought us Paradise has laid down his guitar He sang Angel from Montgomery It's a Big Old Goofy World And there's hope in knowing everywhere some people know the words.... *Gone (3rd line- It slipped onto the highway where the Grapes of Wrath have gone) It used to be four Horsemen, now it's just a single one They say in Revelation that doom will finally come There's a rider in the White House and Liberty has run Everywhere you turn these days, there's another smoking gun *Gone