Queen Of Sheba Crash

from Sunset Grill by Sam Hill Jr

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Words: Andrew Tate / Music: Sam Hill Jr

My good friend Dr Andrew Tate was in the middle of his English PHD when he wrote these words. His subject matter was John Ruskin the art critic of the Victorian era. The song is about Ruskin's spiritual awakening when he saw Veronese's painting, 'Soloman and the Queen of Sheba' on a visit to Italy in the 1800s.

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Falling from England losing my home
don't try to catch me as I fall
into a thousand new questions
I am losing yesterday
I not sure what she means, I not sure what she says
but she breathes new life on this fragile flesh

Tell me where I'm supposed to go from here
Drunk I fall on her life soaked wine
Tell me why I've forgotten my own name
I keep drinking, I keep falling on this wine

She breaks the world into fragments of truth
maybe these arrows of light show the way
but don't show me the old way home
Home gets harder to see
as she spits on my eyes
I know, I know that I'm not blind

Tell me where I'm supposed to go from here
drunk I fall on her life soaked wine
Tell me why I've forgotten my own name
I keep drinking, I keep falling on this wine

Their cold science is killing
as she brings new Pentecost
maybe I'm born again
I know I've not changed truth for a lie
and if I die right now
will I be in those arms tonight

Tell me where I'm supposed to go from here
drunk I fall on her life soaked wine
Tell me why I've forgotten my own name
I keep drinking, I keep falling on this wine

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from Sunset Grill, released March 1, 1996
Sam Hill Jr: Guitar/Vocal
Richard Curran: Mandolin
Alan Gregson: Guitars/Backing Vocal
Geoff Orr: Bass Guitar
Phil Madeira: Hammond B3
Mike Mead: Drums
Al Perkins: Dobro
Bob Halligan Jr: Backing Vocal

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