The Fortune Seller

by Fables

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Living in an age where they play it safe
Wearing caution like a coat of arms
But you gamble on the future
Splitting seams at the sutures
Placing bets on the tarot cards
You’re placing bets on the tarot cards

Searching for the sacred in those old soothsayers
Spinning through the Rubik’s Cube of time
But the colors are divided
Must have seemed one-sided
When you can’t get them to align
You can’t get the colors to align

A man’s in the street, he’s got his prophecies
He’s pantomiming a charade
An omen they could not decode
So he’s singing out an ode
Now he’s dancing through the open graves
Now who's gonna fill these graves?

There’s a drought in the valley down in southern Mexicali
Must be God calling on their faults
‘Cause they’re kneeling in the soil
Wasn’t money, wasn’t oil
No, they’re praying for the sky to fall
Watch them praying for the sky to fall

You’ll never get back on the road tracing circles through the snow
When you can’t remember north from south
You can’t get very far with that map of the stars
When the lights are all burning out
The lights are all burning out

There’s a voice in a dream singing songs from the trees
They’re about the day of your death
As the music starts to play
You hear, “Wake up, you’re running late!”
Now you’ve forgotten what it had said
What was it that the voice had said?

You got the devil at your heels, he tells you, “Come on follow me
I’ll sell you truth if you just pay the price”
He took your home, took your soul
He’s a desperado
I hope he sold you the right advice
Did he sell you the right advice?

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released December 20, 2014
Ben Sheidlower & Jake Webb

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