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Hard Roll came out of the oven under the darkening skies of polities swinging for the fences... a lonesome voice requested a hopeful history of the world in four verses with advice for any and all coming night, “Let's leave the night for lovers, if we just leave the night for lovers, living in the dark wouldn't feel all that bad...”

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Hard Roll

Boys it’s been a hard roll, where do I begin?
Some say back in the garden with original sin
They say salvation can’t be found in the flesh
But making love is nothing if it’s not being blessed

Somewhere along the way boys we broke up into tribes
Tamed a few animals, planted crops then came the scribes
Armies, priests and kings they all started making waves
From then ‘til now we fight to see who’ll rule the day

Chorus:
But let’s leave the night for lovers
If we just leave the night for lovers
Living in the dark wouldn’t feel all that bad

Boys it's been a hard roll where do I begin?
With the help of the church one god killed the pantheon
In the age of enlightenment he himself became a sin
Now facts and opinions get importantly fed
But you can’t really eat them just stuff ‘em in your head

Boys it’s been a hard roll where do I begin
In the age of information don’t forget your pen
Machines and science hum for knowledge’s sake
They’re the new gods, we hope they’ll carry the day

Chorus

Boys it’s been a hard roll where do I begin
It might be easier if more often the good guys win
When the fabric of our lives is stretched until it rips
The language of drastic change always is apocalypse

Boys it’s been a hard roll where do I begin
We wait for the maid to clean up so we get dirty again
One man’s pleasure draws another man’s disdain
Everyday it seems leaves another stain.

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from Springtime in a Foreign City, released April 29, 2017
Written by Sonofmel: guitar, vocal, harmonica
Hammond Organ/accordion: Peter Sands
Percussion: Peter Anderson

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sonofmel Hayward, Wisconsin

Sometimes it takes traveling far from home to find out where one comes from... after combing the world for signs of the sacred among paths of the profane, Sonofmel returns with fistfuls of chords wrapped up in verse that declare though trouble never starves, somewhere high above the maladies of modern man, the sky is still as blue as when Adam first kissed Eve... ... more

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