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Lightning Killed My Sister

from Music from the Lounge at the Bravo Hotel by Bradley Herr

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My brother’s head crested the water
He came up warmer than before
I came up colder and I’d felt I had it worse
He hummed a verse and dragged my body back to shore

We caught our breath and coughed up laughter
Our mother cried up on the dam
We jumped to show her that we wouldn’t let it hurt us
That she’d never see a broken child again

When lightning killed my little sister
the lightning split her brain in two
It sent a shockwave into her corpus callousum
She died before the blast went through

They found her lying on a sidewalk
Her face was bloodied black and blue
They told my mom her skin was burnt down to the bone
There was nothing left that anyone could do.

My mother sits and makes up stories
She turned to dust inside the din
She cries at night and spends her days awake and lonely
Telling people she knows where her daughter’s been

My brother still wakes up in August
To watch his still and sleeping kids
At night I sleep with all my doors and windows open
In case my sister’s somewhere in the wind

Keep yourself around
And try to stay low to the ground
When it hits it sucks you in, it drags you further down
Keep your voices low
You never know where lions lie in wait
Son, keep your eyes on me
I’ll never let you down

Why did it have to be
The best of you, the worst of me and
Everyone was left to die while
You’re lost somewhere in the sky I’ll
Never take my eyes off you I’ll
never take myself away from them
This is what loving gets us in the end










Devil's Doorbell (Hidden Track)

Girls, don’t you go ringing that Devil’s Doorbell
Ain’t no faster way to take a trip to hell
Might seem like it’s nothing when you push that button
But then the door swings open and your finger gets shut inside

Once you start pushing that devil’s doorbell
Clamp down on your hand like a deadly clam shell
Sure, it might seem better in his house where things get wetter
But as soon you reach, your finger gets shut inside

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from Music from the Lounge at the Bravo Hotel, released August 11, 2018
BTH - vocals, guitars, bass, softsynths, keyboards, programming, manipulation

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