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Raising Hell

from Spokedog by David Alan Thornton

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He’s an eye and I am a fist
I tried to blacken him- I thankfully missed
I pick my nails with a bicycle spoke
I eat what I kill and I kill and I choke

But my fighter don’t know what to win for
My dancer don’t know what to spin for
My jailbird don’t know what it’s in for
I’m raising hell

I hang my hat where I hang my head
I wear a coat when I wake up in bed
I pick a fight the way I pick my teeth
I bring my bite to the blood underneath

But my fire don’t know what to burn for
My scholar don’t know what to learn for
My lovebird don’t know what to yearn for
I’m raising hell
I’m raising hell
I’m raising hell

I’m raising hell!
I’m raising hell!
Oh!

I show my teeth and I clench my fists
But something keeps chipping and breaking my wrists

Cause my water don’t know what to run for
My shooter don’t know what to gun for
My songbird don’t know that it’s done for
Oh well
I’ll just raise hell

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from Spokedog, released December 1, 2013

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David Alan Thornton New York, New York

Alaska-raised, NYC-based, singer-songwriter David Alan Thornton has has been called "too open-minded for the Midwest and too open-hearted for New York." As a performer, his "soulful vocal stylings compliment confessional lyrics that border on literary greatness." With a sound in the middle of David Bowie and Cat Stevens, you might call him an alternative-folk-rock singer, but who really knows? ... more

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