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Bitter Wind

from Breaking Time by Bob Menzies

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lyrics

Bitter Wind

there are underground stages and songs for all ages
and anyone can get to the moon
there are open mouthed crazies and strung out old ladies
who are careful not to speak too soon
generations come and generations go,
we’re all part of the same old story
if there’s meaning to this how can we dismiss
the ones who’re not part of the glory
It’s a bitter wind blowing a-cross this land
Who is gonna take a stand
It’s a Bitter Wind blowin’ across this land
A Bitter Wind blowin’ across this land

there are boulevards of broken glass and memories that will not last
and tribes of wanton buffoons
and it’s all for the glory of that last great story
and the lover who left way too soon
it’s a flash from the past and a night when we crashed
in a forest of bottles and smoke
but there’s more to this Jack than a barely seen track
or a song or a string or a toke

It’s a bitter wind blowing a-cross this land
who is gonna take a stand
Bitter Wind blowin’ across this land
Bitter Wind blowin’ across this land


If you ask what the prize is the sun also rises
for the orange and the blue
and the bell tolls for Moses and there’s no door that closes
won’t open a new one too

There’s a snake in the grass there’s a feeling won’t last
Why did I tell you those lies
I’ve got limited horizons, I see Krypton rising
But I love you and I hear angels cry

It’s a bitter wind blowing a-cross this land
who is gonna take a stand
Bitter Wind blowin’ across this land
Bitter Wind blowin’ across this land

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from Breaking Time, released January 15, 2013

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Bob Menzies Sooke, British Columbia

Bob Menzies is a Canadian folk-rock, alt-country singer-songwriter originally from Montreal and now living in Sooke, a small oceanside town on Vancouver Island’s south coast. He has recorded 5 albums of original music previously and his newest recording is the 2018 EP IN THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS. ... more

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