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God's Footstool

from God's Footstool by Kyp Harness

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GOD’S FOOTSTOOL

It’s an open and shut case, it’s a lowdown dirty deal
With an airtight lock and a foolproof seal
You come in on your head, shrivelled-up and red
Go out on your back in a cemetery sack

See the angels sing, hear the sirens ring
See the serpent in the shelter of a tree, slithering
You go back to try the door that you came in before
But all you do is find that it ain’t there anymore

And you know you might be very big, it’s true
But there’s always something in this world that’s bigger than you
And the world ain’t nothing more than God’s footstool

Prisoners and pensioners, businessmen, gurus
Monkey, horses, polar bears and kangaroos
All boilin’ in a pot with an iron lid on top
Waitin’ in the dark for the other shoe to drop

You’ll never understand the hand that orchestrates the dawn
Nor what lurks behind the curtain the sky is painted on
The only thing you know is that there’s nothing you can know
Still you’re determined just to push it all as far as it can go

And you know you might be very big, it’s true
But there’s always something in this world that’s bigger than you
And the world ain’t nothing more than God’s footstool

Churnin’ and a-whirlin’, you’ve been burnin’ with a yearnin’
to be learnin’ why it all keeps turnin’
Round and round, round and round, round and round

Collisions and catastrophes, bones and accidents
Flesh and blood tragedies fillin’ up your pants
You go crawl beneath the moon, the ivory moon
But you’re always too late, or always too soon

You go down to the crossroads where there’s no sanctuary
Where the wind won’t lay down and the dead don’t stay buried
You search through your pockets and sift through your sleep
For the voice that is yours, but never to keep

And you know you may be very big, it’s true
But there’s always something in this world that’s bigger than you
And the world ain’t nothing more than God’s footstool

Churnin’ and a-whirlin’, you been burnin’ with the yearnin’
to be learnin’ why it all keeps turnin’
Round and round, round and round, round and round.

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from God's Footstool, released October 5, 2014

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