Name: WWTFS
Duration: P00H04M22S
Description: “WWTFS” takes on the idea that standing by our flag is not partisan but we all share responsibility to question wrongs and to fight to make them right.

WWTFS

from Troubled Times by Mike Ward: Psychosongs

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“WWTFS” takes on the idea that standing by our flag is not partisan but we all share responsibility to question wrongs and to fight to make them right.

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WWTFS

High atop of buildings I have soared
Watched over every shore.
I stood tall. Welcomed all.
Draped fallen heroes home from war

I could bring crowds to their feet
Waving to old glory’s drumbeat
Hands on hearts. Threadbare, torn apart
Like our democracy

CHORUS I am frayed around the edges
faded blues and blood reds
My stripes and stars. Stained and marred.
I don’t remember how I fell this far.

Not the perfect union I admit.
All the sins both sides commit…
Truth benders. Patriots and pretenders
Hope to god I’ve seen the worst of it

CHORUS I am frayed around the edges
Faded blues and blood reds
Divided as we are, with all our battle scars
I don’t remember how I fell this far

BR: From the shores of Tripoli to the surface of the moon
carry on, carry on.
Those yearning to be free. what so many fought to be,
from sea to almost shining sea…

Wherever I am raised to fly
Do my part guard and guide
Unyielding to the last. Even at half mast
Night or day standing by

CHORUS I’m still frayed around the edges
Faded blues and blood reds
Surround my fifty stars and this land of ours
Don’t ever let me fall again this far
Don’t ever let me fall again this far
Don’t ever let me fall again this far

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from Troubled Times, track released October 7, 2022
Mike Ward- Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
David Roof- Bass, Hammond Organ 
Judy Brown-Backing Vocals 
Dave Keeney- Dobro 
Bill Sadley- Harmonica
Michael Shimmin-Percussion

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mike ward Detroit, Michigan

Lyrically-centric, vocally-charged folk songs. Those are what singer-songwriter Mike Ward loves to create. Living in Detroit, Mike grew up listening to Irish music. Influences are Jason Isbell, Bruce Springsteen and John Prine. His writing echoes along empty sidewalks, on country backroads, in family portraits, and in the thin lines between joy and tragedy, love and loss, past, present and future. ... more

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