Before the Devil knows you're dead - PART II (featuring Sage Cornelius)

by Reverend Meantooth

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Part II of 3: Loss is a terrible thing, you never really get over the loss of a loved one. The goal is to learn to live with it, to cope better and live in peace with your grief one day at a time.

This song deals with loss and grief. three lives of real people I knew and loved, whos light was extinguished far too early.

Verse one deals with a blues man, who after years of bar shows, cigarettes and road life, the reaper cast his ugly shadow in the form of throat cancer.

Verse two deals with a mother, with a history of mental health and addiction issues. After battling for years with both, one night the pain became too much and in an effort to be free, she ended it all.

Verse three deals with a veteran, who found music after serving. Music filled a void for years that nothing else did, but eventually even music couldnt satiate the pain and memories that haunted him and in an effort to make the hurt stop he also ended his life.

My hope is that through sharing my own stories of loss I can maybe offer comfort and support to those who also are hurting and missing loved ones and together we can work through that pain and loss.

This song for me has been a method of closure and healing, I hope that it can be for someone else too.

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Three packs a day from the time he was thirteen
All his father taught him was all he'd ever seen
Cancer took his speech and all the hair on his head
Hope you get to heaven before the Devil knows you're dead

Hope you get to Heaven before the Devil knows you're dead
Devil is waitin' there's fires to be fed
Ain't no foolin' him from your death bed
Hope you get to Heaven before the Devil knows...
Before the Devil knows you're dead

Red haired vixen trouble in her bones
The pills and the booze made sure she wasn't alone
One night she had enough, and ended all her pain
Took those pills and whiskey, never breathed again

Hope you get to Heaven, Before the Devil knows you're dead
Devil is waitin' there's fires to be fed
Ain't no foolin' him from your death bed
Hope you get to Heaven before the Devil knows...
Before the devil knows you're dead

Pain he had deep inside where do you begin
Ridden with a soldiers guilt and man's unknown sin
dead don't speak, the sheep don't eat and a shotgun ain't your friend
Pulled that trigger took his life and met a bitter end

Hope you get to Heaven, Before the Devil knows you're dead
Devil is waitin' there's fires to be fed
Ain't no foolin' him from your death bed
Hope you get to Heaven before the Devil knows. . . . .

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released August 11, 2022
Guitar and vocals : Reverend Meantooth
Fiddle: Sage Cornelius
Percussion: Kelly Nunn
Mixed and mastered at Sound source studios. St. Petersburg, FL

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Gospel music for the sinner. One half of 20 Watt Tombstone.

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