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Evil Eye

from Certain Demise by John Bellows

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lyrics

You pay your reverence to the bridges burned
These desperate measures had gone on far too long
An inconvenience in place of choice
That made me watch you live in the moment as I lost my voice
It pulls away and then it falls apart
The only sense I have left is obligation
Follow the leader but not my heart
Then you can just run through the motions if you get that far

This deprivation you feed isn’t medicine
Sleep without dream whispers a place of no escape, insignificance
All rhyme or reason buried deep in cryptic metaphor
Until nothing’s left but the extreme you were asking for

Does this illusion want to be alone
And claim divine inspiration solely as its own
Something meaningful to bear my cross
And save this falling from grace as if it’s not my fault
I don’t want to feel this empty woe
But then again this sadness is mutual
Pins and needles as I’m waking up
I guess that the dream is over, but now I can’t stand up

You hide and seek beneath the veil of the evil eye
Where nothing is sacred because it’s all deemed to be scrutinized
Two lives, too late, hell bent, too straight
And if you don’t look back you can’t see what you’re running from

There’s a reason it’s not my fault
Didn’t know if you noticed

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from Certain Demise, released October 6, 2023

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John Bellows is a singer songwriter and home recorder from small town Kentucky, schooled in Chicago, and now back to the land in rural Washington.

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