Name: Calm Before the Storm
Duration: P00H05M58S
Description: This uses the Four Horsemen as a metaphor for how the world feels sometimes these days. Every time we turn on the damn news, it seems like Armageddon. And if you dig deep enough into a lunatic's prophesies, you'll find them happening everywhere.

Calm Before the Storm

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This uses the Four Horsemen as a metaphor for how the world feels sometimes these days. Every time we turn on the damn news, it seems like Armageddon. And if you dig deep enough into a lunatic's prophesies, you'll find them happening everywhere.

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brother have you heard the news?
the pale horse is on the loose
sister do you realize
a red horse is on the rise
and it always feels like
the calm before the storm
Mother Earth please don't you cry
a black horse darkens the sky
Father Time you know the score
the white horse rides forevermore

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from Mountain Mirrors, released June 15, 2006
All words and music copyright Jeffrey J. Sanders

Cello played by Claire Fitch

Guitars and vocals by Jeff Sanders

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Heavy acoustic vibes from the Massachusetts woods. (for fans of Opeth, Alice In Chains or Pink Floyd)

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