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Gates Of Hell

from No True Magic by a Jigsaw

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I’m waiting outside the gates of heaven
I’ve been on your trail since the last we spoke
Oh brother, heaven is just a word
I’m counting the days of trust lost with fate
And since you’ve been praying outside the wrong gate
Let me tell you brother heaven is just a word

Oh you’ve been looming by the gates of hell
and it’s not my kind to refuse a wretched soul
Oh brother hell is not a word
I’m taking my time to take you to dryland
And isn’t that a sweet promise, to hang you where you stand?
Oh brother, hell is not a word

oh when the devil comes down, you’ll be on your knees and pray
oh when the devil comes down, you’ll be on your knees and pray
“Death, be my friend” but you’d better run, run

My hands are on fire, from crawling down below,
So I’m going up to heaven to bring you down home
And when the angels find I’m coming, oh brother they’d better run, run

oh when the devil comes down, you’ll be on your knees and pray
oh when the devil comes down, you’ll be on your knees and pray
“Death, be my friend”

I’m on my knees, begging you please, please
I’ve been up to heaven to seek the greater god
But brother, heaven was just a word
Now I raise my cup to the next god in line,
but I’m doomed to be myself for evermore
Oh brother, what if death is just a thought?
Would that move you? Move you?
If you see him coming, you’d better run, run

Just keep on waiting by the gates of hell
and it’s not my kind to refuse a wretched soul
Oh brother this hell is not for show
My hands are on fire, from crawling down below,
I would go up to heaven just to bring you down home
Oh brother, death is not a thought

oh when the devil comes down, you’ll be on your knees and pray
oh when the devil comes down, you’ll be on your knees and pray
“Death, oh Death be my friend”

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from No True Magic, released October 24, 2014

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a Jigsaw Coimbra, Portugal

In 2012 the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles wrote that a Jigsaw was a band to follow. In 2014, the specialized magazine that puts a Jigsaw together with names such as as Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen, returns to warn their readers to not let this Portuguese duo out of their sight. 3 after the debut of their third album, Jorri and João Rui reveal their fourth studio Album “NO TRUE MAGIC”. ... more

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