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Sinners & Slaves

by Ezra Vancil

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1.
Road To Zion 03:47
Road to Zion by Ezra Vancil Like a church you’re a maze dark halls draw lines on your face You’re a child in a race with your future fallen grace Ya You're blind but you see the man you'll never be Just a clown, try in vain, to where your paint in the rain So just go your way we don't want this kinda faith That’s ok if you shine, burnin down the road to zion Draw a crowd on a street so they magnify your weeping Crown - it’s a pound, of your hate you love to - venerate Your mind like a phone calling god’s holy angels home It’s a loss to be found when you think your glory bound So just go your way we don't want this kinda faith That’s ok if you shine, burnin down the road to zion And it’s love and its grace not a war of hate politic debate So just go your way we don't want this kinda faith That’s ok if you shine, burnin down the road to zion So just go your way we don't want this kinda faith That’s ok if you shine, burnin down the road to zion
2.
Desert Town 03:09
Dripi'n down like honey Music on my mind and soul Life a lot like money Spend it all and you want so more God don't make no dummy By I might be an imbecile It might be funny Oh but the joke is getting old Everything I wanted Everything I wished were for Why you gonna light me up a spark To watch me drown In shadows All that I did ask for Why you gonna build me like an Ark In desert town Take ya temperature honey You ain't sick but you might be old Damn the big man's money Talk'n bout the bitch of soul Ching ching ching That Big o'l ass Is solid gold Talk'n bout money Ain't Big o'l ass Is solid gold Everything I wanted Everything I wished for Why you gonna light me up a spark To watch me drown In shadows All that I did ask for Why you gonna build me like an ark In desert town Everything I wanted Everything I wished for Why you gonna light me up a spark To watch me drown In shadows All that I did ask for Why you gonna build me like an Ark In desert town Big o'l ass Is solid gold Everything right now Big o'l ass Is solid gold Talk'n bout money Saying Big o'l ass Is solid gold
3.
Patience 04:07
Patience Like a wave in the ocean Where’d it come with a notion The shore would be the end Patience Like a father's devotion And a motherly potion Now we’re starting to began Patience God colored a rainbow We can practice in slow mo While we learn to love again Patience Loving you is like plants grow Vines tangled the leaf show When we’re starting to begin And when the morning comes There’s the sun rise Just for our eyes You and I And when the night is full There’s the blue skies Moon light your eyes You and i Patience Like a wave in the ocean Where’d it come with a notion The shore would be the end Patience God colored a rainbow We can practice in slow mo While we learn to love again And when the morning comes There’s the sunrise Just for our eyes You and I And when the night is full There’s the blue skies Moon light your eyes You and i
4.
Paper Sky 04:08
Paper Sky by Ezra Vancil Paper sky plastic moon built my world and nothing true except regret even rain ain’t wet years will change, poverty, fame but rescue me love when it all looks the same to you calling angels across invisible telephone line Pushing tables Like i'm a ghost that I want you to find And shine your love glitter stars, Styrofoam toy cars we’re driving home with open doors see the sawdust shores all that shines is cold and dark rescue me love with your beating heart I’m through calling angels across invisible telephone line Pushing tables Like i’m a ghost that I want you to find And shine your love Paper sky, Plastic moon Built a world I thought would keep you close to me But you lost the key Life is long tell me I’m wrong but rescue me love before I am gone see me
5.
Love has come by Ezra Vancil & Jeff Stanley leave your brother sister man sell it all and cut off your hand if you're wise be foolish then for the strong I did not lend a hand but the weak they will endure and the sick will find a cure Love has come to break this power from the desert will run living water the one suffer long the endless hour your ways are undone burn up with the sun my religion is a bloody war i didn't come to bring peace but a sword i light the fire and the endless flame i break the rich to free them as a slave Love has come to break this power suffer long the endless hour all I said and all i done is written down in the book of the son every desire every shame no one to hide me no one to blame but the weak they will endure and the sick will find a cure and the rich will find no gain when the poor come home to rein Love has come to break this power from the desert will run living water the one suffer long the endless hour your ways are undone burn up with the sun Love has come to break this power your ways are undone suffer long the endless hour burn up with the sun
6.
Well Everybody got a little box that they hold A diamond in the rough in the corner folded, Underneath the valentine that remains for a girl Or a guy that never Found that holiday Now it seems so far away And you’ll never find a place for traces of that kind of Love Cause it’s buried deep beneath the years of blood and Gold And searching for the truth just to find it sold To a taller man and a bombshell girl Who is thin and cheap with natural curls And I want that holiday And I promise I’ll be brave Walk to the box with roses painted in the snow Fold it up and let it go Everybody got a little shrug in the shoulder Thinking of a love that left them cold Or wandering the street steeping a beat of a heart Oh it makes you feel so grey And I want that holiday When lovers celebrate Snow on an open road And chocolates sold and making love Now it’s buried deep beneath the hopes of broken souls And meeting in the truth that love grows cold For a waters deep in a man’s deceit And a women's hum drum mystery And I want that holiday And I’ll promise I’ll be brave Draw me a picture of a heart with four aarows Fold it up and let it go And I want that holiday And I’ll promise I’ll be brave Walk to the box with the roses painted in the snow Fold it up and let it go Signed your valentine To my love divine And I want that holiday And I’ll promise I’ll be brave Walk to the box with the roses painted in the snow Fold it up and let it go And I want that holiday And I feel so far away Draw me a picture of a heart with four aarows
7.
Light her eyes by Ezra Vancil take down her picture frame alone put up some painting of a poet pack all the lies and ties away this story ends the same a different name my momma said not to let you go my father said that you never know love is a stranger to us but feelings are a story often told and sold so take off that ring so no one knows that promise cheaper than the gold that lovers take so they can brake the loneliness of the cold don't light her eyes again don't let her find the place you hide telling her lies again don't let her love she'll come inside and i'm tired of us always leaving and hoping the lies are worth believing put up the stories that you wrote take off the faith that makes poet pack up the memory and chains the story ends the same they’re all the same my momma said not to let you go my father said that love is slow but it's dangerous in the feelings that are waves that come and go and tough don't light her eyes again don't let her find the place you hide telling her lies again don't let her love she'll come inside and i'm tired of us always leaving and hoping the lies are worth believing so take off that ring its made of gold like promise says it's bought and sold pack up the glory and the shame in a box with the picture frame and sign her name don't light her eyes again don't make her feel so alive telling her lies again don't let her love she'll come inside and i'm tired of her always leaving me with the lies and i still believe it don't light her eyes again don't let her find the place you hide telling her lies again don't let her love she'll come inside and i'm tired of us always leaving me with the lies and i'm still believing
8.
We grew up in the same big city South of the Mexican line I always knew that she was pretty And I dreamed that she'd be mine I was the quiet one I was the sad son She was the valentine And while the boys play I just drift away Hoping she'll read my mind You want to play I'm your fire You want a song I'll be sung You want feeling I'm your desire Cause everything I do I always done Trying to make you the one Her folks split She took a hard hit And traveled with the drunk'n bum I asked about her but I didn't want to know Just married with a baby son But twenty years And a lot of tears I was broken down and left undone She came to my door Like the girl before Hiding out on the run You want to play I'm your fire You want a song I'll be sung You want feeling I'm your desire Cause everything i do I always done Trying to make you the one She bought a white dress Man I was still a mess Drinking up the things I'd done A perfect honeymoon But trouble came soon And we both had a feeling to run And I disappeared into oled fear Searching for the boy I was She was beside me but she wouldn't lie to me A man is only what he does But if You want to play I'm your fire You want a song I'll be sung You want feeling I'm your desire Cause everything i do I always done Trying to make you the one We have a house in the same big city South of the mexican line Our children in the yard Ya our life is hard But I know you're mine You want to play I'm your fire You want a song I'll be sung You want feeling I'm your desire Cause everything i do I always done Trying to make you the one You want to play I'm your fire You want a song That I'll be sung I'm your desire Trying to make you the one
9.
The One by Ezra Vancil We grew up in the same big city south of the mexican line I always knew that she was pretty and I dreamed that she’d be mine I was the quiet one I was the sad son she was the valentine and while the boys play I just drift away hoping she’ll read my mind You want to play I’m your fire you want a song I’ll be sung You want feeling I’m your desire cause everything i do I always done trying to make you the one Her folks split she took a hard hit and traveled with the drunk’n bum I asked about her but I didn’t want to know just married with a baby son but twenty years and a lot of tears I was broken down and left undone she came to my door like the girl before hiding out on the run You want to play I’m your fire you want a song I’ll be sung You want feeling I’m your desire cause everything i do I always done trying to make you the one She bought a white dress man I was still a mess drinking up the things I’d done A perfect honeymoon but trouble came soon and we both had a feeling to run and I disappeared into oled fear searching for the boy I was She was beside me but she wouldn’t lie to me a man is only what he does but if You want to play I’m your fire you want a song I’ll be sung You want feeling I’m your desire cause everything i do I always done trying to make you the one We have a house in the same big city south of the mexican line our children in the yard ya our life is hard but I know you're mine You want to play I’m your fire you want a song I’ll be sung You want feeling I’m your desire cause everything i do I always done trying to make you the one You want to play I’m your fire you want a song That I’ll be sung I’m your desire trying to make you the one
10.
Halli Says 03:44
Halli Says by Ezra Vancil Halli says were gonna shine like the sun in bloom before it’s decline But I say what about this hunger in me and what about these feelings and what about these troubles I’ve built in my mind But Halli says it’s all in time All the dreams float off just so we may climb But I say what about my failings and what about this emptiness what about this spirit I no longer find But halli says that I’ve been found that she could picture me before the world was round but I say what i just ruin it all and what If I just build us a wall and what if this man’s history and future is bound And fear just let me go some things no one should know dark places we hide songs sung alone in the night But Halli says she’s gonna try to travel farther than the answer to why and I say, maybe I’m no good for you and maybe you’ll be through with me and maybe all loves poetry was written with wine But halli says we’re gonna shine.
11.
I won't wait To see your throne You're too late I died alone In a thousand days In a quiet soul So I won't wait I'm coming home This is a father's love you say To suffer me the day Until we're sewn Into the grave We die alone Suffer me the pain That I too have known Sinners and slaves I've made my own And call them home Elijah's grave In the baptist's bones He could not save But pointed on To the washer of eyes And the blindness of the soul Life, he came To die alone This is a father's love, a grave So suffer me the day Until your sewn You pass away And love is grown Suffer me the pain I too have known Sinners and slaves I make my own To take you home This is a father's love, to pay Suffer me the day Suffer me the day You're not alone I pass away And love is grown So suffer me the pain I too have known You're not a slave You're not alone Suffer me the day

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Sinners & Saints is a collection of songs recorded between 2005-2012 by Ezra Vancil formally of the Ezra/Thomas production duo. Ezra worked with several collaborators on Sinners & Slaves including Jeff Stanley on Road To Zion.

Road to Zion and Paper Sky have gone on two win awards and be featured in TV/FILM

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released July 8, 2013

Ezra Vancil Guitar/ Drums/keys/Bass, Jeff Stanley - Guitar/Drums/Keys/Bass (road to zion, Paper Sky, Love has come), Stéphane Amaté Strings/Piano/Arraignments (valentines day song), Marcus Janus - Keys (the one), JP Adams - Keys (The Day)

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Ezra Vancil is an American singer/songwriter based in Dallas, Texas. While in the past he has written and recorded in the rock, pop, and experimental genres, a more mature Vancil has now found a sense of permanent belonging and connection within the community of Americana artists. ... more

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