"UNLESS GOD APPEARS FIRST"
Words and music by Thomas/Thomas/Daugherty/Bennett/McCormick.
©2008 Spin The Dradle Publishing, ASCAP/Warner Chappell Songs, BMI.
As yet unreleased. Available as MONOFILM 001.
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V1.
I was born besid the Erie in the summertime,
Lived inside the rustbuckle 'til the age of nine.
I broke the rules of the preacher and his blessed little wife.
I turned the left side of truth into the center of life,
And pulled the grey and the gold out of the black and the white.
I've got a heart that's full of equal parts of fear and faith, and they say:
Unless God appears first, I will die this way.
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CHORUS:
I sing sad songs.
I get high some.
I got nothin' to prove, baby, winnin' or lose I'm the same, and I say:
Unless God appears first, I will die this way.
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V2.
I remember kissin' Jenny on a Friday night.
I told her she was the one, then she let me inside.
I stole the trust of a woman who was only ever kind.
I called her after a year, in a moment of need.
She didn't mention that night or ask no penance of me.
I was convicted and forgiven in an instant on that day, and I say:
Unless God appears first, I got debts to pay.
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CHORUS.
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BRIDGE.
If Heaven comes, or I hear it calling
From the mansions behind pearly gates,
I'll go at night, or on horses of fire
Through whirlwind and wire, with a grin on my face.
Unless God appears first, I will fly away.
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CHORUS.

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