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When The Devil Knocks

from Instinctive Drowning by Chris Orrick

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VERSE There ain't no Lord here, Dear Lord/Nobody watching or protecting/what you fear for/There's nothing moral about humans/disillusioned, living in ruins/most unsacred of unions/the Devil speaks fluent in influence/God's students lost/busy disproving Newton/Must be thinking is he this fucking stupid?/I'm a shoe-in for Heaven's Gates/My dues been accruing/You sitting in that waiting room stewing/Sweat dripping, anxious/Tie getting loosened/Knowing that you judgment is pursuant/to the life that you lived/dirty shit that you been doing/You tried to make your soul translucent/ excuses taking the place of improvements/Your prayers been muted/You soul been wounded/That high horse you rode in on/Is fucking useless/ CHORUS When the devil comes knocking/you don't got a lot of options/body and soul rotten/God's forgotten, misbegotten/downtrodden/but he ain't watching x2 BRIDGE Do not fear God/Do not fear death/What is painful is easy to endure/What is good is easy to get/So when God invites me up to have my interview/and tells me that my résumé reminds him of the sin in you/I'll remind her that you tried your best to do what's best/without a second thought or consideration of what's next/and that you never told her children you were better for it/and that you asked if I could pass along a message for him/that if the God above is real and I was left below/That's not the kind of God I want and you should let me go/ VERSE So Hello Mr. Self Righteous/Bury your pride beneath the shadow of the Cyprus/I can see it in your iris/you're lifeless/You might just/pick and leave to fight ISIS/The Middle East, there isn't peace for those sightless/Those people need your beliefs/spiritual crisis/You can enlighten them from underneath the Ficus /but really if they'd just remain tight-lipped/you might give/Some rationality/Some democracy/Western Culture the foundation of your Whiteness/But it's not a matter of wrong or right it's/a matter of these divine rights bitch/But man, fuck it/Go on your crusade/Put your woman in place, make fun of somebody who's gay/nobodies racist on Kill-A-Black-Tuesday/and it's cool to say the n-word when you rap along with 2 Chainz/But before you go all Liu Kang on Hussein's/You gotta tell 'em you're a Christian, and you pray/But goddamnit, today is a new day/and freedom tastes like gunpowder/pass the Crest toothpaste CHORUS When the devil comes knocking/you don't got a lot of options/body and soul rotten/God's forgotten, misbegotten/downtrodden/but he ain't watching BRIDGE Do not fear God/Do not fear death/What is painful is easy to endure/What is good is easy to get/So when God invites me up to have my interview/and tells me that my résumé reminds him of the sin in you/I'll remind her that you tried your best to do what's best/without a second thought or consideration of what's next/and that you never told her children you were better for it/and that you asked if I could pass along a message for him/that if the God above is real and I was left below/That's not the kind of God I want.

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from Instinctive Drowning, released August 26, 2016
produced by Ill Poetic

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Chris Orrick Detroit, Michigan

Chris Orrick is the patron saint of a poisoned world. The blue-collar MC writes spiteful chants for the permanently scarred, death letters for the forgotten, surly hymns for charcoal lungs. Think Bukowski on an eloquent bender, swapping wine for whiskey, a notepad for a glowing LED screen, the race track for the recording booth. These are anthems for the irate, over-educated and under-valued. ... more

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