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Sometimes You Stand

from Our Desert Ways by The Olive Tree

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The line "The Gospel aint information, the Gospel is food" was inspired by a sermon I heard where the guy said, "Love is not information, love is food".

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If it sounds just the same, well I’d probably like it
With three chords dropping hard and a broken heart on the page

Get me out of this game, put me somewhere in Dallas
Where the sun never sets and the smile you can bet’s gonna stay

It’s a sure-fire risk, handing over the keys
To your padlocked heart when your eyes from the start are blind

So wipe off your eyes and
Take in the light again
Where well never dries, no the flow never thins
No matter the miles, no matter the land
Sometimes you kneel and sometimes you stand

I spent a hundred years wandering out through the nightland
When there was no more to waste turned it round and made haste for the day

With the wind did he ride on this old thoroughbred
The sky gave a crack and he swung off its back and he said

So wipe off your eyes and
Take in the light again
Where well never dries, no the flow never thins
No matter the miles, no matter the land
Sometimes you kneel and sometimes you stand

Throw me back in the fire, there’s so much left to refine here
And don’t take me out till I’m clean, simple, and true

Like an old country song that I wish I had written
Just three chords dropping hard in your heart and speaking the truth

So tell me that story in the morning and evening
The Gospel aint information, the Gospel is food

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from Our Desert Ways, released July 24, 2012

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The Olive Tree

Meet the collaborative songwriting effort of two brothers. Currently based out of New Orleans and Madison, Ben and Scott Cunningham grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. They love alt-country, the key of G, acoustic guitars, fishing, Jesus, and the world he created. For 15 years and running, together they write and record songs about these things, calling this effort The Olive Tree. ... more

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