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Holy Smoke

from Only The Now by Tom Robinson

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(Tom Robinson, Carwyn Ginsberg, Swami Baracus, Gerry Diver, Andy Treacey, Patrick Dawes)
℗ 2015 BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited
from the album Only The Now
© 2015 Castaway Northwest Recordings/Leporine Ltd

lyrics

My father's in the kitchen
My mother's making tea
My sister's sitting stitching
My brother's dungarees
My grandad's in the attic
Some aunts & uncles too
I'm shattered and erratic
There's one thing left to do

Ripping out and rolling up the scriptures
The fire of Isiah makes me choke
Inhaling Revelations and Creation
2000 years of wisdom up in smoke

I like to smoke the bible
It makes a crazy toke
Those wafer paper pages
Go up in holy smoke
The wrath of God will find me
My friends and neighbours say
But I get high divinely
My sins are blown away

Ripping out and rolling up the scriptures
The fire of Isiah makes me choke
Inhaling Revelations and Creation
2000 years of wisdom up in smoke
Up in smoke

You like to smoke the bible
It makes a crazy toke
Those wafer paper pages
Go up in holy smoke
The wrath of God will find you
My saints and angels say
But me, I'm right behind you
Your sins are blown away

Ripping out and rolling up the scriptures
The fire of Isiah makes me choke
Inhaling Revelations and Creation
2000 years of wisdom up in smoke

Ripping out and rolling up the scriptures
The fire of Isiah makes me choke
Inhaling Revelations and Creation
2000 years of wisdom up in smoke

credits

from Only The Now, released October 16, 2015
Tom Robinson: bass, lead vocal
Swami Baracus: rap
Ian McKellen: voice of God
Lisa Knapp: choir
Andy Treacey: drs
Adam Phillips: gtr
Gerry Diver: everything else

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Tom Robinson London, UK

Tom Robinson (b.1950) is a UK songwriter & broadcaster first known in the 70s as an anti-racist and LGBT campaigner. He released 19 albums between 1975-2001 with various bands and has co-written songs with Elton John, Peter Gabriel, Dan Hartman and Manu Katché. He's an award-winning presenter at BBC Radio 6 Music, and released Only The Now (his first album in 19 years) in October 2015. ... more

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