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Red Sky Blues

by David Poe

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Written, recorded live and posted during protests against police brutality, May 31, 2020.

You can hear the helicopters at the end.

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RED SKY BLUES

Clouds above the city
Fire in the night
Helicopters high above
The riot
Scarlet as a sunset
Bloody as the news
Red sky blues

They killed him for his color
They killed him for his skin
They killed him for the part of town that he was walking in
The future doesn’t lie
The camera tells the truth
Red sky blues

I want to say my something
When I saw that stranger bleed
Want to write it down
But they won’t teach me how to read
And so I broke the glass and took $500 shoes
Red sky blues

The idiots are winning
I see ‘em in the street
And sitting in the White House
Yelling at the TV screen
Now you know the answer to
What have you got to lose
Red sky blues

credits

released May 31, 2020
David Poe, vocal and guitar

Written by David Poe. ©2020 Charming Martyr Music (BMI.) Administered by Modern Works Music Publishing.

Lyric video here:
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David Poe Los Angeles, California

"DAVID POE gives the singer-songwriter genre a much-needed jolt"
- Rolling Stone 

"The make-out record of the year”
-Harp magazine

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"[Songs] like miniature novels."
- The London Independent

Composer fellow
- Sundance Institute 2009

Winner
- Lunas del Auditorio award 2011

Sundance Film Festival 2008 - 11
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