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Grown​-​up Now

from The Flight Demonstrations by Joshua Ward

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The bitter fall from faith.

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Hey, how does it feel to be loved by an angel?
Been a long long while.
Is there pain?
Do you break bread with the dead and ancients?
Do they all say hi?
Is your best
better than mine?
With your storybook of good and your Sunday time?
Sometimes I plead
to once again feel that I'm loved by an angel
but I'm a grown-up now.

Tell,
how does it feel to still kneel for the blessing
When they draw that cross
Like a spell;
The shiver of spirit, a limit caressing -
Or has that too been lost?
Is your death
better than mine?
With your show-and-tell of hell and that blood red wine
Sometimes I dream
That I'm still a teen and receiving the blessing
but I'm a grown-up now.

"Great.
Great is the mystery of faith" - so they told me:
God, that did sound good.
Each mistake,
Loosening lies that they looped round to hold me
as then good lies could
but then life
opens your eyes:
There's no Eden to believe in just a great divide.
Sometimes I sigh
and think of the beautiful lies that they told me
But I'm a grownup now.

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from The Flight Demonstrations, released May 17, 2020
Words and lyrics by Joshua Ward

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Joshua Ward London, UK

Voice of Bath. Hygiene of Bristol. Josh is the songwriter, actor, teacher and poet your parents will, at least initially, approve of.

"Middle class traitor".
"Cracked genius" "Thoughtful fool."

Channelling folk, a choirboy past and his unique lyricism, Josh has finally got off his prodigious backside to, at last, conquer the world.

Songs will be sung.
Hearts will be won.
Cities will fall.
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