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The Other Friars

from And That Will Be How It Will Be by 80 Foots

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Music and Lyrics by Chris Schoen.

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I know the way the other friars all look down at me
Clucking at my drunkenness from in their dry eternity
I hope they all choke on their tea

I wish I could remember the rhymes the Lord had sent
The morning starlings mimicked whistling winter in their merriment
I was distracted--I don’t know where they went

Brother John says God is fed up with my attitude
Well he started it
Walked straight up to the coastline of my sour mood
And then he parted it

For all I care you can all dive in the wishing well
But if you daredevils want to bring yourselves --and tell us all
About the things you did when you were there
When you stopped being you caught in your snare
Who will sing the lies that you bring back as souvenirs

I just want to inscribe the lines that make the world resound
If you knew how hard it was to concentrate with you around
God bless the day that you are drowned

The chanting in the halls has just become another din
The tantrum of the bells is how a demon lets the day begin
Why won’t some demon just let some tigers in

Brother John says God is fed up with my attitude
Well he started it, he started it
And now he saunters through the vineyard in beatitude
Like he outsmarted it

For all I care you can all dive in the wishing well
Put on your stocking caps and cast your trusted summon
Spell and maybe you can have a starfish for a friend
And you can make the oaken tree to bend
Blow bubbles till your ventricles distend
While I scratch on this vellum in the hall of my wits’ end

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from And That Will Be How It Will Be, released December 21, 2018

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80 Foots, the world's only End Times Vocal Trio, started out making songs from poems, and have steadily grown a repertoire of songs that that harvests from old-time, early American, and international music forms to meditate on death, sadness, and falling down stairs. ... more

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