For Everyone A Reckoning (Fear)

from Samples by Heather Aubrey Lloyd

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Whew! Turns out the “fact” that people swallow eight spiders in their sleep yearly isn't true. But a lot of people will quote that statistic, like the false-memory Mandela Effect. People's fears are real because they are felt, often deeply entrenched ... and just as unsubstantiated even as they are shared by others. A bluesy little number about contending with our own beliefs about politics, the afterlife, the boogieman and swallowing spiders, Heather let the individual letters of this one-word prompt create the acrostic for the song F E A R = "For Everyone A Reckoning."

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I don't know any more than you
if the sky will fall and crush us
or the seas rise up to take back what was theirs
Maybe we all get exactly
what we think is coming
invite the devil we know right on up the stairs.

Oh, there ain't no runnin'
from the hell you make inside of your mind
if you think you're damned, you are
if you think you'll fly, you will
you'll find exactly what you think you're going to find
for everyone a reckoning.

You say they're coming for us
with guns with rules with their religion
then they're coming to take the guns, the rules, the religion all away
they're saving us all, they're killing us off
well choose your ammunition,
but can anybody tell me
who the hell are "they?"

Oh, there ain't no runnin'
from the hell you make inside of your mind
if you think you're damned, you are
if you think you'll fly, you will
you'll find exactly what you think you're going to find
for everyone a reckoning.

The beast under the bed
the doubt inside your head
the spiders inside you
even if you want to forget.

I don't know any more than you
if the sky will fall and crush us
or the seas rise up to take back what was theirs
Maybe we all get exactly
what we think is coming
invite the devil we know right on up the stairs.

Oh, there ain't no runnin'
from the hell you make inside of your mind
if you think you're damned, you are
if you think you'll fly, you will
you'll find exactly what you think you're going to find
for everyone a reckoning.
For everyone a reckoning.

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from Samples, released August 1, 2010

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Heather Aubrey Lloyd Baltimore, Maryland

Recovering reporter turned songwriter, Heather Aubrey Lloyd also co-fronts Baltimore’s ilyAIMY. Her 2017 solo release, “A Message in the Mess,” spotlights Lloyd’s emotive alto and a polished departure from her band’s alt-folk grit. Awards from the likes of No Depression Magazine, Telluride Troubadour, National Women’s Music Fest, etc. soon followed. Lloyd will release new music in late 2020. ... more

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