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Damascus Road

from High Mileage by t heislen

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What happens when what we take to be holy writings are used to harm rather than heal?

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I wish he’d left you blind on that Damascus road,
set you back to sewing sails by the sea.
Too many held down for the sake of your words
who ought to be set free.

I wish he’d stilled the pens that wrote in your name
to raise themselves and lay others low.
Took your voice to keep another silent,
gave a least one nowhere to go.

The mean and the greedy made it not his house but yours,
to keep the ones he blessed outside the doors.

How did your voice become the one to call the shots,
to judge and name the ins and the outs?
Put hard hearts and closed minds in the judgment seat,
lift law high and put love to rout.

(chorus instr.)

I wish he’d left you blind on that Damascus road,
set you back to sewing sails by the sea;
or left you there eating dust while your name echoed off
the stones you’d cast at me.





© Terry Heislen (BMI)

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from High Mileage, released December 6, 2012
Brian Alderman, electric guitar

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