His Master's Voice

Album: Monsters of Folk (2009)
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  • Mohammed rolling dice with Christ at twilight
    And they hear their master's voice, they run to do their chores
    At master's calling.
    Their job tonight, re-write the bible
    For a whole new generation of non-believers.

    The pastor screams out to the crowd
    'There's evil that must be put down!'
    And it touches the soldier boy he heeds his master's voice
    His life is calling.
    Sweet soldier boy, the speaker is bleeding
    He hears his master's voice do you hear your master's voice?
    Calling like the lady siren's call.

    Sweet soldier quiet- just staring at the ceiling
    And he hears his master's voice he hears the call to war
    The siren's singing.
    Out on the line- there's something that strikes his side
    And he sees his inner child he hears his mother's voice
    Softly calling.
    Spirit soldiers mother hovers she holds up a paper cup
    And the sound of life and love fills her ear.

    You're only gonna hear what you want to hear
    Do you hear your master's voice now?

    Mohammed and Christ speak twice as nice
    But the one that I like best he sings inside my chest
    I hear my master's voice now
    Calling out, calling out, calling out calling out Writer/s: JAMES EDWARD OLLIGES JR
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Peter Shaw from Manchester UkMy father and myself loved this song ,since three billboards outside ebbing Missouri. That was his final song at his recent funeral.
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