This ain’t no ordinary trouble — this is a very special day. Every bird has hit the road this morning, and everything you know will pass away.
When the fire rolls down the mountain, and the village is ablaze, you’ll scorch the ridge to try to save the pasture, but everything you know will pass away. Everything you know will pass away.
Oh oh oh oh I hear my choir singing. Oh oh oh oh I think I’m gonna die.
Oh oh oh oh I hear my chains a-ringing. Oh oh oh oh I think it’s time. Oh oh oh oh I think they got the governor on the phone. Oh oh oh oh he says “goodbye.”
There’s a voice above the treeline, and what He says you must obey. He told me: “Take off your shoes, you won’t be needing them anymore, for everything you know will pass away.”
Everything you know will pass away.
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I wrote the music with Shane Valentine, and this was the first track on my album Jericho.
This is a true story, recorded in a little yellow house in North Hollywood, California.