the-music-mixer: God’s Gonna Cut You Down || A southern gothic...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:26:46 -0400

God’s Gonna Cut You Down || A southern gothic mix

The Lord’s gonna come for your first born son
His hair’s on fire and his heart is burning
So go to the river where the water runs
Wash him deep where the tides are turning

This isn’t no land of comfort. The earth is tired, and she heaves her rattling breaths through the dry grass. Dust hangs like a shroud on your shoulders and settles on the scuff of your shoes. Here, there’s religion in the cracked pages of Scripture and in the rim of a whiskey bottle. Our father who art in Heaven, He’s got a harsh heart. There’s bad blood in the bible; sins are not forgiven here, they are only absolved once the dues are paid. Here, grizzled men exhale their souls in cigarette smoke as they idle on the porch. Their venom is inside of slow smiles, as smooth as molasses. Here, women are sunken-eyed; they’ve got cleavers tied to their apron strings, vengeful and weary, faces hewn out of scrap iron. Nothing really lives here. The hoot owl whistles in the old cemeteries by dusk, but the real burial grounds are elsewhere- men find their graves at the bottom of the river, at the deepest hour of night. May they rest in sin indeed.

Don’t you lift him, let him drown alive
The good Lord speaks like a rolling thunder
Let that fever make the water rise
And let the river run dry

Blood On My Name- The Wright Brothers

Grounds For Divorce- Elbow

David- Noah Gundersen

Maneater- Blue-Eyed Blondes

Bottom Of The River- Delta Rae

Bartholomew- The Silent Comedy

Nothing But The Water, Pt. 1- Grace Potter & the Nocturnals

Rolling In On A Burning Tire- The Dead Weather

99 Problems (Jay-Z Cover)- Hugo

Beat The Devil’s Tattoo- Black Rebel Motorcyle Club

God’s Gonna Cut You Down- Johnny Cash

Raise Hell- Brandi Carlisle

Chop and Change- The Black Keys

Awake O Sleeper- The Brothers Bright

“Let no man bring me harm, I bear the marks of Jesus.”

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the-music-mixer: God’s Gonna Cut You Down || A southern gothic...