Thin Blue Flame

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[Chorus]
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  I became a thin blue flame
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  Polished on a mountain range
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  And over hills and fields I flew
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  Wrapped up in a royal blue

[Verse 1]
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I flew over Royal City last night
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A bullfighter on the horns of a new 
moon’s light
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Caesar’s ghost I saw the war-time 
tides
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The prince of Denmark’s father still
 and quiet
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The whole world was looking to get 
drowned
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Trees were a fist shaking themselves
 at the clouds
I looked over curtains and it was 
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then that I knew
                            C
That only a full house gonna make it
 through

[Chorus]
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  I became a thin blue wire
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  That held the world above the fire
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  And so it was I saw behind
C                           Am
  Heaven’s just a thin blue line

[Verse 2]
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If God’s up there he’s in a cold 
dark room
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The heavenly host are just the cold 
dark moons
He bent down and made the world in 
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seven days
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And ever since he’s been a’walkin' 
away
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Mixing with nitrogen in lonely holes
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Where neither seraphim or raindrops 
go
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I see an old man wandering the halls
 alone
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But only a full house gonna make a 
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home

[Chorus]
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  But I became a thin blue stream
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  The smoke between asleep and 
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dreams
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  And in that clear blue undertow
C                         Am
  I saw Royal City far below

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[Verse 3]
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Borders soft with refugees
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Streets a’swimming with amputees
It’s a Bible or a bullet they put 
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over your heart
It’s getting harder and harder to 
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tell them apart
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The days are nights and the nights 
are long
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Beating hearts blossom into walking 
bombs
And those still looking in the clear
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 blue sky for a sign
Get missiles from so high they might
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 as well be divine
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Now the dogs are howling at our door
Singing bout vengeance like it’s the
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 joy of the Lord
Bringing justice to the enemies not 
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the other way round
They’re guilty when killed and 
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they’re killed where they’re found
If what’s loosed on earth will be 
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loosed up on high
It’s a Hell of a Heaven we must go 
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to when we die
Where even Laurel begs Hardy for 
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vengeance please
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The fat man is crying on his hands 
and his knees
Back in the peacetime he caught 
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roses on the stage
Now he twists indecision takes 
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bourbon for rage
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Lead pellets peppering aluminum
                          C
Halcyon, laudanum and Opium
Sings kiss thee hardy this poisoned 
Am
cup
                          C
His winding sheet is busy winding up
                             Am
In darkness he looks for the lights 
that have died
But you need faith for the same 
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reasons that it’s so hard to find
And this whole thing is headed for a
Am
 terrible wreck
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And like good tragedy that’s what we
 expect

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[Verse 4]
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At night I make plans for a city 
laid down
Like the hips of a girl on the 
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spring covered ground
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Spirals and capitals like the twists
 of a script
Streets named for heroes that could 
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almost exist
The fruit trees of Eden and the 
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gardens that seem
To float like the smoke from the 
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lithium dream
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Cedar trees growing in the cool of 
the squares
The young women walking in the 
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portals of prayer
And the future glass buildings and 
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the past an address
And the weddings in pollen and the 
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wine bottomless
And all wrongs forgotten and all 
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vengeance made right
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The suffering verbs put to sleep in 
the night
                             Am
The future descending like a bright 
chandelier
And the world just beginning and the
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 guests in good cheer
                      Am
In Royal City I fell into a trance
Oh it’s hell to believe there ain’t 
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a hell of a chance

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[Chorus]
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  I woke beneath a clear blue sky
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  The sun a shout the breeze a sigh
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  My old hometown and the streets 
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I knew
C                              Am
  Were wrapped up in a royal blue

[Verse 5]
I heard my friends laughing out 
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across the fields
The girls in the gloaming and the 
C
birds on the wheel
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The raw smell of horses and the warm
 smell of hay
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Cicadas electric in the heat of the 
day
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A run of Three Sisters and the flush
 of the land
And the lake was a diamond in the 
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valley’s hand
The straight of the highway and the 
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scattered out hearts
They were coming together they 
C
pulling apart
                               F
And angels everywhere were in my 
midst
                                C
In the ones that I loved in the ones
 that I kissed
I wondered what it was I’d been 
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looking for up above
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Heaven is so big there ain’t no need
 to look up
So I stopped looking for royal 
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cities in the air
                          C
Only a full house gonna have a 
prayer