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The Many Disguises of God

from Gone Away Backward by Robbie Fulks

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Bright blazed the sun on the day you were born Red ran the flowering vine I felt it then like the prick of a thorn Someone so tender and kind
Watching.
I left your mother a-sleeping and still To walk for a while ‘neath the sky I climbed the side of a crooked old hill Reaching the crest I did spy Soldiers.
As you press on to the future’s fair land Child, spare a glance back where you came For over your cradle a lone figure stands History tells us his name: Adam.
Had you the wings of the angel you seem O’er these hospital walls you would fly And my so-called crimes would go small like a dream And there to your wondering eye...
A mountain face, lashed jagged by the sea.
The plow’s steady churn, the impress of hooves in the clay. A rusted gray shed, jammed with gunpowder and gold. A vine-clotted field where families once gathered to die. Seaports, depots, where the goods of all lands freely flow. A signpost to a town no longer there.
An arrow asail that no man shot nor can slow. Forms mighty and small, scrabbling ‘round looking for food. The onrushing plains, the soft lights just beyond Ten thousand the same, one child who is not. The chair by the wall, a-rocking the dreadful day through. The hand of love withdrawn: the many disguises of God.

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from Gone Away Backward, released August 27, 2013

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Robbie Fulks Chicago, Illinois

Robbie Fulks is a recording artist, instrumentalist, & songwriter living in Chicago. His most recent release, Upland Stories, earned wide-spread recognition & 2 Grammy® nominations. His early work helped define the 90s "alt-country" movement while his newer work extends that tradition with old-time rambles, reflections on love, & the troubles the people. ... more

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