B-side to "All Roads Lead to War (Single Version)"
lyrics
Lately there's been a hangin' stillness in the wind
But it's dyin' and it won't be born again
And lately the sky has turned as sad-eyed as the sin
That cries the tear drops to be tattooed to my skin
And I'm just thinkin' down the backroads of my youth
And I'm walkin' 'bout them early days of june
And maybe I killed them off a bit too soon
But there was nothing left to use
And I'm alright
Yes, I swear I'm doing fine
I'll look back only to find
Why a man is only as strong as his lies
And never once was the right way to heavy of a road
For the back that breaks beneath the path it holds
And now the rains a'screamin' like the silence that arose
From the bodies of my friends, feedin' the crows
And I'm just bleedin' every ounce of my doubt
That their wings have turned my body inside out
To hide the sun inside and amplify my blackened bowels
To sound the storm that rings about
And I'm alright
Yes, I swear I'm doing fine
I'll go back only to find
Why a man is only as strong as his lies
And I'm alright
Yes, I swear I'm doing fine
I'll go back only to find
Why a man is only as strong as his lies
Word and music by Cody J. Martin
Copyright 2013 Cody J. Martin Music (BMI)
credits
from All Roads to Lead to War (single),
track released December 8, 2013
Written and performed by Cody J. Martin
Recorded and mixed by John Finley
Mastered by Roger Siebel at SAE Mastering in Phoenix, AZ
Album photography by Chad Hilliard
Design by Cody J. Martin
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