You Can't Burn the Devil in a Fire

from Shouting Like a Pantomine by Chad Pelley

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The cop beat a black because he wanted to
Your kid took a gun, and he shot up the school
now you can't slip your foot into the other shoe.

The president's a liar but we're listening
because the media's too broke to break the stories we need.

You can't burn the devil in a fire (x4)
They can't set a fire to us all.

Ignorance is bliss until it starts a war
the devil's in the details and they're locked in a drawer
and the truth is too long to matter anymore

It's a 2-way terror, hold the mirror up,
they'll dumb you down until you're trained like a pup.

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from Shouting Like a Pantomine, released March 1, 2017

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Chad Pelley St John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Chad Pelley is an author who'd rather write songs than stories.

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