The Road to Damascus

from Otras Alhóndigas EP by Ryan Morgan

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These days on the road to Damascus,
there's not so many visions of the Lord.
There's people asking, but he's already asked us
to forget about the shit that he said before
except the parts about the brothers against brothers
and all the living and the dying by the sword.

And these days, on the streets of Caracas,
there's not so many pickup stickball games.
It's hard to see pitches through the glare of the rockets
and the teargas makes it hard to run the bases.
There's people sayin' it's the price you pay for progress,
but the argument's not carryin' that much weight.

At some point, you've gotta decide what side you're on,
whose side you wanna be on.

These days, all the walls we build between us
have stopped being poetic metaphors.
There's a real one from Tijuana to Juarez
that we built with the scrap metal from the wars.
Like some collective solitary confinement
runs from Darien to Arizona's borders.

At some point, you've gotta decide whose side you're on,
and what side you wanna be on.

These days, well the travelling's not as easy
as just following stars like the wise men did.
Mary and Joseph have a hell of a time
getting to Bethlehem to have their holy kid.
Get turned away at some military checkpoint,
it's a long, long walk back to Nazareth.

At some point, you've gotta decide what side you're on,
and whose side you wanna be on.

These days on the road to Damascus,
there's not so many visions of the Lord.

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from Otras Alhóndigas EP, released September 24, 2017

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