Orenda Fink - Invisible Ones Guard The Gate lyrics

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Something's happened, now you're far away

You had to leave, no time to explain

I called Brother said, "Mother's gone

The Red Bird came and took her off"

I asked, "Will she be in heaven above?

All over my shoulder like a carrier dove?"

He said, "One, two, three, four,

There ain't no devil, there ain't no Lord.

Five, six, seven, eight,

Only love, only hate."

I went to a preacher to seek the truth

The wisest man that I knew

The preacher had fallen, his colar torn

He slept with a bottle, his face unshorn

He looked at me with bloodshot eyes

A beaten man can tell no lies

He said, "Prophets, pimps, angels, whores,

There ain't no devil, there ain't no Lord.

Money grows to fill the preacher's bank

He saves your soul for himself to take."

I travelled the world to understand

The words he spoke were no man's

I came to an island of beauty and pain

Shimmering souls, untamed

And now the children, talking bright

Sing to me in the night

They sing, "One, two, three, four,

There ain't no devil, there ain't no Lord.

Five, six, seven, eight,

Invisible ones guard the gate.

Invisible ones guard the gate."