Wherein I preach about the troubling persecution of Charlie Kirk’s widow & tell some stories about my Mom and Sister of the same name.
I try to shed light on the weird mix of reverence, with the glam and glitz often associated with church going women from my Utah/Idaho/Arizona neck of the woods.
Higher levels of self righteousness and sanctimony in this episode.
If you don’t feel like being shamed & called to repentance, skip this one.
Oh, I also include a song at the end that I wrote with a guy named Shaun Mason.
It felt like it fit the topic.
No Refunds.
The Hardest Part
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Bm A D
The hardest part of dying
F#m7 Bm7
is waking up too late
A G
and all the ghosts are sleeping
Bm7 G A9
in shiny wooden crates.
Bm7 D G
Some believe they’re dreaming
F#m7 A G
of friends who burn in hell,
D F#m7 G
laughing with the devil
Bm7 G A9
while Jesus rings the bell.
G Bm7 A
Can you hear the angels sing
F#m7
do you know the words
Bm7 G
& feel what they mean
Em7 F#m7 A
the angels are crying
Em A D
That’s the hardest part of dying
Bm A D
The graveyard is a garden
F#m7 Bm7
six feet above my head
A G
It’s not as heavy as I imagined
Bm7 G A9
kinda easy being dead
Bm7 D G
Now I haunt the halls of memories
F#m7 A G
of lovers come and gone
D F#m7 G
As I argue with the angels
Bm7 G A9
& paint the break of dawn
Can you hear the angels sing
do you know the words
& feel what they mean
the angels are lying
That’s the hardest part of dying
The angels are lying
That’s the hardest part of dying
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