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Reformation Hymn

from ill fly away by Lebo Jenkins

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REFORMATION HYMN
well they’re gonna shave my head•stand me in line•feed on cornbread while i serve a little time•oh yes it's true•i done brought my father to tears•i done lost a couple years•from going way on down the road•these boys and i•pretend not to cry•we just hang our heads between our knees and wish to die•oh yes it's true•i used to contemplate some death•wished ol’ satan took my breath• thought i had a place in hell•gots a brother sister•back home•and both of them is wondering why i'm gone•oh yes it's true•they know i done somebody wrong•to be gone for so damn long•they shouldn't have to be so strong•ignorance soaked•into my heart diseased•now there's a mace and chain•hanging from orange county sleevesoh yes it's true•i used to manifest some hate•broken bones on pearly gates•thought stealing teeth would compensate•for my self pity•my pathetic grief•had a prayer for burial•for at night i could not sleep•oh yes it's true•i used to mourn for myself•i didn't know the truth of wealth•there was a darkness in my health• got no letters•thought no one cared•but my mother wrote me•saying please do not be scared•oh yes its true•i love you matter what you've done•my wild brown eyed son•i know in time you'll overcome•i was littered with sin•they let me out the pen and i find my way back in•that's where i met me some men•with no regards to life•gonna sit within these walls ‘til they wither up and die•i can't sing this old hymn for long•only enough breath for one reformation song•these cold metal cots are gonna rust with my nighttime sweat•pushing my chest from hopeless grounds ‘til i got nothing left•falsely filled a void upon my return•these comrades so weak in the flames they burn •with release realized synthetic relations•return to the forest organic fixation•take me from these bars•cover me in your leaveswrap me in your ivy and leach out my disease

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from ill fly away, released September 23, 2016

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Lebo Jenkins Marshall, North Carolina

performs alien appalachian,
old time tunes, and american primitive compositions on banjo and scordatura guitar along with other instrumentation and noise collectives. Word singing too.

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