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Bible Belt

from Wood Burning Stove EP by Joe Vickers

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Crying into your hands, you were sitting
On the curb outside of St. Anthony’s
Your white dress was fitting
Tighter than the Father gripped the rosary

I gave you a thrift store ring
It had to be a shotgun; no other way
We bit our lips and they clipped our wings
What’s the use of flying when living in this cage?

Oh, we weep when the river plays
Folding the cards that we were dealt
Seventeen years old and showing
beat by the buckle of the bible belt

The emptiness of these eyes
Reflects the space within my chest
While the smiles of a thin disguise
Are put on to match our Sunday Best

At night we dream in separate rooms
Then awake to the scripture of Joshua -
To serve Him in the home is not a chore
It’s my cross-stitched duty hanging on the wall

Oh I am struck by the guilt and shame
Longing for a love I’ve never felt
In silence I endure the pain
Beat by the buckle of the Bible Belt

All my life I was a failure
Mother said to act more lady-like
The small town gossip whispered
“That’s John and Mary’s girl, I hear she is a dike”

They saw my necktie and my crewcut
But could not see that identities differ
And this tough skin of mine had enough
I came out and changed my name to mister

Oh, my assignment betrayed me
I fled to where the redwoods dwell
A man born into this body
Free from the buckle of the bible belt

We were the whipping boys, we were beaten
People like us did not live in Eden
Their wrath covered us in welts
Beat by the buckle of the bible belt

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from Wood Burning Stove EP, released April 30, 2017

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Joe Vickers Drumheller, Alberta

Farmer by day, troubadour by night, Joe Vickers has logged countless miles on both his combine and tour van. His music explores the human spirit singing of the triumphs and tragedies of everyday life on the prairies.

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