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Sanctuary

by John Elliott

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This is the second single and title track from a forthcoming new album that will be released in two parts. Part One is coming soon. Part Two is coming later.

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lyrics

I cannot know them, I can't understand
How it feels when your mother is ripped from your hands
How it feels to be trapped in a cage alone
So lost in the language and so far from home

I cannot know them, there's no way I can
I was born in a starlit and succulent land
I was born with a promise in my blood and my skin
Blind to my fortune and baptized in sin

Who am I to be so wealthy and so free?

They need a sanctuary

I cannot know them, I simply cannot
How it feels to be hungry when food can't be bought
To be tired and terrorized with no place to go
I can't understand, I can't ever know

I was a child in my own sunlit room
The windows were open, the world was in bloom
Summers with my sister and the neighbors
Just runnin' on the grass so green between our toes

Who am I to be so wealthy and so free?

They need a sanctuary

I know I won the lottery
I know I won the lottery before I could even breathe

But I cannot know them, I can't understand
How they're told that they're different
So they know that they're different
How they grow feeling different
How it's kill or be killed
I can't understand them
There's no way I will

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released July 31, 2020
Written, recorded, and performed by John Elliott
Mixed and Mastered by Jonathan Kirchner

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John Elliott San Francisco, California

“John Elliott is the Andy Kaufman of folk music.”

“Post Seinfeld, Post 9/11 Eyebrow Rock.”

“Well crafted and artful songs by a potentially disturbed individual.”

Singer/songcyclist.
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