Name: Velvet Jesus
Duration: P00H03M27S
Description: My friend sent me a link to this velvet portrait of Jesus and Elvis for sale. It kept staring at me and I started to imagine if it was hanging in my house, he wouldn’t like the way I was living my life. So I wrote a song about it.

Velvet Jesus

by Black Guy Fawkes

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My friend sent me a link to this velvet portrait of Jesus and Elvis for sale. It kept staring at me and I started to imagine if it was hanging in my house, he wouldn’t like the way I was living my life. So I wrote a song about it.

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Empty bottles on my nightstand
Make new friends day by day
Collecting dust and finger prints.
Its communion in my own way.
I pray to whoever's listening.
They probably couldn't give a damn.
At least they'll hear these loud cries from
A sacrificial lamb.

This velvet Jesus hangs there
Judging the moves I make.
He says I can walk on water
But I'm drowning in my mistakes.

I know this psalm like my own palms
Sing it loud and make them proud.
The saints of sins and record spins
Keep me safe in my own shroud.
But I still have fear of falling
Out of grace only to find
That the only revelation
Is not what we've redefined.

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released January 8, 2021
Written and Recorded by Ian Robinson aka Black Guy Fawkes and Dan Stevens
Recorded at Trending Higher Studios
Mixed and Mastered by Dan Stevens

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Black Guy Fawkes Cumberland, Maryland

Appalachian Folk Punk

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