EP 10: The story behind the song | Mascara
If we know we are going to die, what choices do we make – about how and when we meet this moment. Will we go kicking and screaming, or will we find some grace? And who gets to decide, us or someone that cares about us –maybe more than we do.
We talk through these questions in our latest behind-the-song episode, as we listen to two different demos as well as the final version of “Mascara” track 9 from Heaven Get Behind Me.
LYRICS:
Mascara
That ain’t mascara in the rain
That’s just you on a Sunday
I ain’t looking, looking for mercy
Take as long as you need
I’d be just as happy
If they take me out back
It’s time for me to pay the price
I liked living outside the law
I never did anything to a child
They can take me down there
Or they can shoot me right here
That ain’t mascara in the rain
That’s just you on a Sunday
It ain’t gonna make any difference
You can do anything for a year
For your sister or your brother
He ain’t wild like me
They don’t kill them in Nevada
Unless they agree
I ain’t going to court to help you die
I want some relief
I want them to know the same joy
Tell them a good story
Then walk out on that story
That ain’t mascara in the rain
That’s just you on a Sunday