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Stripped to the Bone

from The Thread by Band of Burns

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lyrics

Bombs fell on your house
Wiped out the whole street
You grab what you can
You’re out on your feet
The bombs keep falling
It’s raining stones
You keep on running
Stripped to the bone

Gave all your money to a smuggler
Boat leaves in the night
Across the dark ocean
Out of the coast guard’s sight
You get to the other side
They can’t send you home
Stuck in no man’s land
Stripped to the bone

Barbed wire fence
Rivers of mud
Damp rots your feet
Screams chill your blood
You got to jump the fence
Dog’s teeth and mouth foam
Took the flesh from your leg
Stripped to the bone

Laying on a park bench
Dirty hands and bare feet
Sleeping in the doorway
In the rain and sleet
Going where the begging’s good
No place to call home
All out of favours
Stripped to the bone

All in a shopping trolley
And plastic bags
One man’s rubbish
Another man’s rags
Washing in the river
Wake with the dawn
Sleep beneath a bridge
Stripped to the bone

What man can endure
Like many men hence
The temple of Zeus
I see through the fence
Surviving earthquakes
A spine of lead and stone
Well I’m still standing too
Stripped to the bone

If this is a man
Then so it be
He’s just as often here
As he’s prospering and free
It must be nature’s law
To be so high on a throne
Then to fall so low
Stripped to the bone

credits

from The Thread, released October 10, 2019
Adam Beattie - Vocals / Guitar
Dave Tunstall - Double Bass
Feilimí Devlin - Bodhrán
Ewan Macdonald - Mandolin
Ríoghnach Connolly - Irish Flute
Alastair Caplin - Violin
Mikey Kenney - Fiddle
Lewis Murray - Viola
Dominie Hooper - Cello

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Band of Burns London, UK

A unique collaboration between 12 international artists, coming together to perform a truly distinct show celebrating the life, works, and philosophies of Robert Burns.

Scotland's national poet, pioneer of the Romantic Movement, a great source of inspiration to founders of Liberalism and Socialism, a famous womaniser, and an internationally celebrated 'People's Poet'. ... more

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