Name: Lot (Just Like a Cockroach)
Duration: P00H06M17S
Description: The story of Lot and his wife and daughters, told from his own perspective.

Lot (Just Like a Cockroach)

from Eking Out A Prophet by Ilan Speizer

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The story of Lot and his wife and daughters, told from his own perspective.

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I like to think that I’m a good man.
My record ain’t half bad.
I saved a pair of vagabonds
From a crowd so raving mad.
They would have defiled those strangers,
Who were angels, I surmised,
So I offered up my daughters.
Seemed a decent compromise.

If you can’t spare the people of this town
From the hellfire you’re preparin’ to rain down,
You’d better burn it all right to the ground,
Cause I’m just like a cockroach:
I’ll always be around.

The angels gave me warning:
Told me, “Trouble’s on the way.
Gather your wife and kids, my man,
And simply walk away.
Take what you can carry
In a bedroll or a pack,
And just you keep a-movin’
Don’t even think of lookin’ back.”

Two daughters and a good wife,
They followed me ‘cross the plain,
Leavin’ all we had behind:
A lifetime down the drain.
I told my wife, “What’s done is done,”
So it surely ain’t my fault
That one last glimpse, it turned her
To a statue made of salt.

In a cave up in the mountains,
It was just me and my girls,
Thinkin’ we were all that’s left
In this great, big, mean, old world.
The future of the planet
Was awful hard to see
As they plied me with good liquor
And they had their way with me.

I know that you can make it rain.
You can wash away my home.
You can level it unto the ground
With fire and brimstone,
But you’d best make sure you kill us all
Or ask to call a truce,
Cause you may be all-powerful,
But we can reproduce!

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from Eking Out A Prophet, released July 16, 2019

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