Burn The Ground when the sun slept in one morning and the sky stayed black as coal saw the nightwish mount their dragons as they searched my mortal soul when we fought the raging armies of the damned in dark and cold your essence drained into their night as you sacrificed control burn the ground so the dead can't find me pray the drowned stay beneath the sea hear the sound dark angels calling in the visions that I see burn the ground when you forfeited our freedom and you cast your lot with dark I held your empty shell until I saw the devil's mark when your lifeblood drained my ocean and our fever pitch was reached I saw you dancing slowly on the sacrificial beach burn the ground so the dead can't find me pray the drowned stay beneath the sea hear the sound dark angels calling in the visions that I see burn the ground heaven knows I loved you heaven knows I tried all the time I'm thinking of you I should be glad I'm still alive burn the ground so the dead can't find me pray the drowned stay beneath the sea hear the sound dark angels calling in the visions that I see burn the ground so the dead can't find me pray the drowned stay beneath the sea hear the sound dark angels calling in the visions that I see burn the ground © 2016 John Staples --------------------------------- John Staples is a singer-songwriter based in Chicago, writing and performing everything from Classic Rock to 21st-Century Americana/Bluegrass! He is currently producing a new CD to be released in 2016. John also writes instrumental music for royalty free and stock libraries under his Leatherwing Studios label. John has been described as a "darker Johnny Cash" and has been compared to Gordon Lightfoot, John Prine, Jerry Garcia, Warren Zevon, Billy Idol, Lou Reed, Bob Seger, Ozzy Osbourne and Townes Van Zandt. His songs evoke comments such as, "beautiful and honest", "really deep and really cryptic yet crystal clear", "Painful and beautiful at the same time!" and "the deviation into darker territory is intoxicating." Anyone who has only heard one or two of John Staples' songs has many delightful hours of listening ahead as each of his songs is unique and fresh! As one fan put it "I come into your songs knowing I'll hear something fantastic, and when the song ends, I'm never, ever disappointed."