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Better Never Than Late

from Somebody's Hometown by Human Shields

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BETTER NEVER THAN LATE

I was baptized twice, but still it didn't stick.
First, as a dying baby, I became a Catholic.
When I'd been saved from Limbo came my first heresy:
I was made a Protestant when I'd forgotten I'd been sick.
Better never than late for me.

He put off his deathbed conversion until another day,
when all the broken promises will have been unmade
and wrapped up in a package with a pretty ribbon
just waiting for Pandora to come along and say,
"Better never than late for him."

When the spirit came to save her, she'd already left home
to turn one trick too many to feed her baby and her jones.
She heard that preacher's words as he turned away with a curse,
throwing down the money beside her unanswered cell phone,
"Better never than late for her."

You've heard a million voices, seen a thousand points of light,
but Jesus never comes to you on a backsliding night,
and salvation's just another tale for you to misconstrue
if nobody answers when you ask what's wrong or right,
"Better never than late for you."

Two fire engines scurry past; the sirens doppler down.
They speak in tongues in that storefront church and writhe down on the ground,
but the dealer in the back room chokes on smoke and phlegm
and rasps out when he sells his shit by the ounce or by the pound,
"Better never than late for them."

They wanted to be a big-city story, that was all,
so they called some number scratched on a bathroom wall.
The ringing at the other end sounded ominous,
and when it finally ended, one said, "Don't make another call.
Better never than late for us."

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from Somebody's Hometown, released June 9, 2015
Words and music by Andrew Shields

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