Dying in the sun-mudless

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When you get mugged along the road

Lyrics

[Verse 1 - The Walk]
I left the city in the morning
Seventeen miles to go
The road I've walked a hundred times
The only way I know
I had some silver for my business
A coat my father left to me
The sun was up, the air was still
I walked it easily
[Verse 2 - The Attack]
They came out of the rocks like shadows
I never heard a sound
Just fists and wood and something sharp
And then I hit the ground
They took my silver, took my coat
Left their marks across my skin
I watched them walk away with everything
And leave me lying in
[Chorus]
I'm dying in the sun
Face down in the dirt
I'm dying in the sun
Waiting for it to stop hurting
[Verse 3 - The Waiting]
I couldn't move, I couldn't call
I watched the sky go white
Surely someone's coming
Surely someone walks this way by night
I heard the flies before I felt them
Crawling where the blood had dried
I fixed my eyes upon the road
And waited there and tried
[Verse 4 - The Priest]
I heard his sandals on the stones
Smelled the temple smoke
I tried to lift my hand to him
But something in me broke
I saw the blue fringe of his robe
I saw him see me lying there
I saw him cross the road
Like I was poison in the air
[Verse 5]
A man of God, a holy man
Twenty feet away
He looked at me and kept on walking
What else is there to say?
[Chorus]
I'm dying in the sun
Face down in the dirt
I'm dying in the sun
Left by the ones who know my worth
[Verse 6 - The Levite]
Another came, I heard him stop
This one came in close
He looked me right there in the eyes
I thought he'd help the most
But something shifted in his face
Some calculation running cold
He stepped back like I'd burn him
And he left me in the road
[Verse 7]
Two men of God, two holy men
Who sing the songs I sing
Who pray the prayers I pray at night
Left me for the gathering
Of flies and sun and nothing else
Just the slow drain of my blood
Two servants of the living God
Left me dying in the ditch
[Chorus]
I'm dying in the sun
Face down in the dirt
I'm dying in the sun
Abandoned by the pure
[Verse 8 - The Samaritan]
I heard another set of hooves
I didn't lift my head
What's the point of hoping now?
I'm better off for dead
But then I heard him getting down
Heard his knees hit the ground
Felt hands upon my broken back
The gentlest hands I've found
[Verse 9]
I opened up my eyes to see
Who'd finally stopped for me
And there he was, one of them
A face my people taught me
To despise since I was young
A man whose name I will not speak
Whose prayers are wrongly sung
[Verse 10]
Tearing up his own good shirt
For this body of mine
I tried to pull away from him
I didn't want this debt
He just kept working, said nothing
Like we'd never even met
[Chorus]
I was dying in the sun
Face down in the dirt
And the enemy knelt beside me
Binding up my hurt
[Verse 11 - The Journey]
He lifted me onto his donkey
Walked beside me all the way
His hand upon my broken back
Through the long heat of the day
Seventeen miles he never spoke
Never asked me for my name
Just kept me breathing, kept me steady
Like we were somehow the same
[Verse 12 - The Inn]
He brought me to a roadside inn
Paid silver from his purse
Told the keeper he'd be back
To settle what came worse
Then he was gone into the evening
And I lay there in that bed
Saved by a man I would have spat on
If I'd seen him instead
[Final Chorus]
I was dying in the sun
Face down in the dirt
But the heretic stopped to help
I was dying in the sun
The enemy brought me home
[Outro - spoken]
I still don't know what to call him
The word sticks in my throat
I remember his silence
I was taught to hate him
He taught me something else

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