Ian West "Ego Deep" (2021)
'Ego Deep' is a song from Nashville musician/songwriter Ian West's 2021 EP release "Songs Eila Won't Dance To."
Lyrics:
Keep my name from your tongue
Follow this setting sun
You won’t get out of here alive
So don’t try
God is great, God is good
God’s a cloud or firewood
A kid shot dead by the police
And the cop too
The seas are rising, the rivers have all turned red
The children are all crying and the hero is dead
Or fast asleep
A silver drone, Saudi bombs
No health care, no Islam
It ain’t that hard to see this game
It’s still the same
An open grave outside of town
Beside the church that was burned down
Someone saw something move
Was it you?
They buried all the scriptures one by one
Then etched their merchant’s names to the backs of the caskets of your sons
Don’t wake up
Shadow men make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I stole that line, call it “love and theft”
I did my best
Now singers weep and singers moan
But just can’t stand to sing alone
I’d try to pray but what would I say?
Another day
The sky has opened up and silenced you
Everyone you’ve ever known is whispering what to do
Please wake up
Songwriter: Ian West
Song: Ego Deep
Artist: Ian West
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