"Faith and Hope" genre: Blues Rock
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	CD: Pronounced Zoo-no   Label: Charm City Records
	Story Behind the Song I saw this guy on 42nd street near Times Square in New York City preaching the word of the Lord on a sidewalk. He was talking through a cheap microphone and an amplifier that was distorting. I couldn't understand him all that well but the one thing I was able to decipher was he wanted money. I think Bono from U2 said it perfectly in the movie Rattle and Hum..."My god is not short on Cash man!" Anyways, this song is also inspired by a poem from Stephen Crane. The poem is about an angel who visits a man(probably a civil war soldier) and tells him he should live life more peacefully. The angel gives the man examples on how to be and when he is finished the man tells the angel in no uncertain terms, "That's easy for you to say your an angel!" This is a one take vocal and the first line that I sang is a mistake but we kept it. The right lyrics are below. Lyrics I was walking through the city and I was feeling pretty bad Saw this guy staring up to the sky and he turned and he said, "You know the sky is forgiveness and the clouds are pain. The sun that's your soul that shines and burns the clouds away so have faith and hope. You got to have a reason to believe." Well I was feeling kinda vicious and I was feeling kind of cold I said,"Hey cloud minding friend it's easy to stand there and talk. Can you find me a job, can you pay my rent, can you make me a star can you bring back my girlfriend on Faith. On hope. I want to have a reason to believe that's all. I wanna have faith, I wanna have hope I want to have a reason to believe" He said," Who's keeping you down? You don't like this place quit hanging around. You're the one who puts the clouds in the sky. You decide, You decide, it's up to you You decide. We went down to the river that flows out to the sea Walking along that shore line my cloud minding friend and me he said, "The sky is forgiveness and the clouds are pain. The sun that's your soul so shine on and radiate some faith and hope.

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