The Common Linnets - When Love Was King lyrics

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When pain didn't reign and love was king

We could wash our hands of most anything

I inherited my father's sin

I was born and raised in the midst of it

Before a preacher spoke those words in red

And holy men would bow their heads

Before I was the man I am

The oldest son of Abraham

The day I drowned in fire and stone

I found out what I'd always known

I still remember, I still see

A heart that trusts, and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king

My daddy was a gambler, a drinking man

He showed his love with the back of his hand

I never saw him smile, not a flicker of grace

Think he burried them with mamma in the Tennessee clay

The day I drowned in fire and stone

I found out what I'd always known

I still remember, I still see

A heart that trusts, and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king

The day I drowned in fire and stone

I found out what I'd always known

But I still remember, I still see

A heart that trusts, and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king

A heart that trusts, and a voice that sings

When pain didn't reign and love was king