August 7

Album: Destination Anywhere (1997)
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  • It was another day
    A perfect Texas afternoon
    A mother and two children play
    The way they always do
    As they raced home from the mailbox
    A mother and her son
    Against a little girl of 6 years old
    The independent one

    The deputies went door to door
    Through all the neighborhood
    They said I got some news to tell you folks
    I'm afraid it ain't so good
    Somehow something happened
    Someone got away
    Someone got the answers for what happened here today
    Oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no, no

    Tell me it was just a dream, August 7 4:15
    God closed His eyes and the world got mean
    August 7 4:15

    Now the people from the papers and the local T.V. news
    Tried to find the reason
    Cop dogs sniffed around for clues
    Someone shouted "Hit and Run"
    The coroner cried "Foul"
    Her blue dress was what she wore
    The day they laid her body down
    Oh no, Oh no, Oh no, no, no, no

    Tell me it was just a dream, August 7 4:15
    God closed His eyes and the world got mean
    August 7 4:15

    I know tonight that there's an angel
    Up on Heaven's highest hill
    And no one there can hurt you baby
    No one ever will
    Somewhere someone's conscience is like a burning bed
    The flames are all around you
    How you gonna sleep again

    Oh no, oh no, oh no, no, no, no

    Tell me it was just a dream, August 7 4:15
    God closed His eyes and the world got mean
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