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Ranches And Mansions

from Too Much Of Everything by The Strunts

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Ranches and mansions don’t mean much to me
without love, what good is property
there in the distance I see heaven above
And they say that peace arrives
on the wings of a dove
The wings of a dove

Better buckle up for a rough ride
the word has just come down
everything is changing
In this backwoods town
no time for comfort
no time to contemplate
tomorrow night we must be gone
There’s nothing to debate

So we set our hearts to leaving
We work the whole day long
To keep the children’s spirits high
We sing a travellers song
“Mi corazon ansia por ir
Lejos de esta tierra
Lejos de esta tierra extranjera
Volver a Mexico”

By the time we reach the mountain wall
Towards the promised land
everything is desert
everything is sand
the darkness of a false dawn
keeps the sun from sight
after burning all our bridges
we can’t see any light

Before us faces made of rock
And built by human hand
Look down from a naked sky
`Upon this barren land
We stand there gazing upwards
At the scale of human sin
The wall they built to keep us out
Is keeping us in

The dogs of war are panicked
 the hell -hound’s on our trail
 we’re heading for the endgame,
 bow your head and draw the veil
 the party’s almost over now
 feel free to place your bets
someone blow the whistle
too late for regrets

We turn our backs upon the wall
And as we stand and stare
The sound of hooves approaches
Hot dust in the air
We hold each other closer
My love and I, we kiss
The greedy they know only war
They never had this

Ranches and mansions don’t mean much to me
without love, what good is property
there in the distance I see heaven above
And they say that peace arrives
on the wings of a dove

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from Too Much Of Everything, released July 4, 2020

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The Strunts Campbeltown, UK

The Strunts travel from Folk-Rock to Cow-Punk visiting various strange and heaven-forsaken towns in between. The songs contain a good shot of compassion mixed with a generous splash of desperate cynicism and black humour that befits their status as The Kings of (Melodic) Curmudgeon. Catch them before they become a global phenomenon and/or are extradited somewhere unpleasant. ... more

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