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Ben Rogers

I don't remember buying this album. It was playing on rotation and the lyrics grabbed me.

Stunned I couldn't find the lyrics anywhere, I transcribed them myself below.

"Sinners" from album "The Bloodred Yonder" (2015)

Somebody just called me a fag
For picking flowers from a chainlink fence
On jetlagged widows and jigsaw women
I spent my father's inheritance

Now the Bible read [?] them all on the corner
He holds a cardboard sign
It reads "I can accept failure, and cash credit, or check"
I laugh and I toss him a dime

Well, God spoke to me last night
I told him I don't talk to strangers
The guardian angel of death
Watches over the sinners

Now the spit valve serenades on Wall Street
The trumpets like the drone of flies
Well fruit has its seasons
It rots and it dies
But the whiskey is always right

And if I had a dollar for every time
You said you loved me, well I'd still be poor
But I'd give every penny in my pocket tonight
To hear you say you love me once more

One shot to steady the nerves
And twelve more to kill them

The guardian angel of death
Watches over of the sinners

The guardian angel of death
Watches over of the sinners