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Road To Zion
03:47
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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
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2. |
Desert Town
03:09
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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
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Patience
04:07
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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
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4. |
Paper Sky
04:08
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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
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5. |
Love has come
03:46
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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
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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
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7. |
Light her eyes
04:28
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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
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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
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9. |
The One (Alt Version)
03:57
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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
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10. |
Halli Says
03:44
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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.
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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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ezra vancil Dallas, Texas
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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