#music video That's How Every Empire Falls cover byAnya Hinkle

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That's How Every Empire Falls · Anya Hinkle

Eden and Her Borderlands ℗ 2021 Organic Records

Released on: 2021-07-16 Main Artist: Anya Hinkle

Studio Personnel: Clay Miller Composer: Richard B. Morris Lyricist: Richard B. Morris Music Publisher: Rich Mountain Bound Music / BMI

RB Morris performs "That's How Every Empire Falls" from his 2012 album 'Spies, Lies & Burning Eyes' live in studio at WNRN. Covered by the likes of John Prine and Marianne Faithful

"That's How Every Empire Falls"

He caught a train from Alexandria, just a broken man in flight Runnin' scared with his devils, sayin' prayers all through the night But mercy can't find him, not in the shadows where he calls Forsaking all his better angels, that's how every empire falls The bells ring out on Sunday morning like echoes from another time All our innocence and yearning and sense of wonder left behind Oh gentle hearts remember, What was that story? Is it lost? For when religion loses vision, that's how every empire falls He toasts his wife and all his family, the providence he brought to bear They raise their glasses in his honor although this union they don't share A man who lives among them was still a stranger to them all For when the heart is never open, that's how every empire falls Padlock the door and board the windows, put the people in the street "It's just my job," he says, "I'm sorry," and draws a check, goes home to eat At night he tells his woman, "I know I hide behind the laws" She says, "You're only taking orders", that's how every empire falls A bitter wind blows through the country, a hard rain falls on the sea If terror comes without a warning, there must be something we don't see What fire begets this fire, like torches thrown into the straw? If no one asks, then no one answers, that's how every empire falls