A while back Jake and I were given tickets by our friend Greta to the Get up Kids concert. It was a pretty great show. While we were there to see them one of the openers was Kevin Devine. I had never heard of him and neither had Jake. After hearing his set and really enjoying his music and lyrics we decided to invest in his CD. I am so grateful that we did. This id one album that I would highly recommend. The reason that I choose to write about this today is that for some reason music has the ability Christian or Non Christian to open my eyes to the truth and beauty of God. I know there are some that would disagree with me and say and believers we should listen to Christian music, but I would have to politely disagree with you. There have been times that I have been moved to my knees in adoration of my savior by music that would never be found in a "christian" book store. Does that make it any less beautiful to God? Doesn't he delight in all that His children do? Anyways... I would love to hear your thoughts.
Another bag of bones, Kevin Devine
It's a brushfire spreading, feeding as it moves
It's a disappeared glacier; it's the airborne flu
It's your disbelieving eyes logging concrete miles
It's your yawning conscience and your lawyer's smile
It's an occupied country foaming at the mouth
No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud
It's a military mother with a boy in hell
And it's a flag-draped casket down an oil well
It's an Argentine school-girl gagged and bound
It's a torture camp; it's a long way down
It's the constant bracing shock of now
And it's the whole damn world turned inside out, alright
It's a march to extinction with your god in step
It's his name in your mouth; it's his cross on your neck
It's a farm boy sprinting over desert dirt
And he's panting the 'Our Father' in staccato spurts
Now that's his automatic rifle and it tells no lies
It's his truth in your stomach, it's no alibi
But the trouble lies on the other side
With an equal truth prepping for his holy night
He sees the crescent and the star blink in the virgin sky
And hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife
And as he eases to the checkpoint, he is calm and sure
It's collateral damage; it's the cost of war
It's another bag of bones for the Gods to sort
It's just another bag of bones for the Gods to sort
Well it's a species disappearing, all the birds fly south
In a January heat-wave, in a pulsing crowd
It's an African Militia, kids with sub-machines
It's a conflict diamond on your bride-to-be
It's the dispossessed lining up at every gate
It's the facts worth facing, faced way too late
It's the mission of modernity, go get what's yours
Till there's nothing leftover to go get no more
And it's not what we're owed, but it's what we've earned
And it's closer than we realize, and it's time now to burn
And oh it's time now to burn
And oh it's time now to burn
And oh it's time now to burn, to burn
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