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The Chalkboard Prophet

from Digital Lies by LORD

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In almost every large city you’ll see disheveled homeless looking people carrying signs proclaiming the end of the world is nigh. We pass those people by as if they were invisible, not giving their message a second thought. But what if they were actually right all along and we were just too blind to heed their warning? What if you were given foresight into a terrible disaster but you were treated as crazy by the rest of the world?

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We think we know the answers
It’s there in black and white for all to see
Yet look beyond the madness
Another truth, another world for you and me

Show you open doors
To use your mind and think
Lead you to the shore
To the water, but you have to want to drink

And once I too was blinded
Believing what was told for all to hear
We’re all so simple-minded
Another lie, another life controlled by fear

Show you open thoughts
Oppression now defied
Reveal the truth, distraught
At the prophecy, our journey’s end is nigh

Condemn the crazy man
His eyes are filled with sadness
With chalkboard prophecy
Foretold, we turn away

SOLO: LT

Just walk on by
Don’t stare, don’t look him in the eye
His ranting insane, profane
Just turn and walk away

He’s seen on every city corner
A human wreck, around his neck a chalkboard sign
But is he mad or sent to warn us
To take control and save us all before it’s time

Tolling of the bell
A final desperate plea
Heed the tale he tells
I know the truth, that crazy man is me

Condemn the crazy man
His eyes are filled with sadness
With chalkboard prophecy
Foretold, we turn away

He’s just a crazy man
His mind is lost in madness
Are we too blind to see
That he’s the one who’s sane?

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from Digital Lies, released February 1, 2013
Words / Music: T. Grose

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LORD is one of Australia’s highest profile heavy melodic bands, touring both nationally and internationally with artists such as Queensryche, Iced Earth, Nightwish, Saxon, Helloween, Gamma Ray, former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Dianno and many more, as well as their own headlining tours and international festival appearances. ... more

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