Name: Nature's Darker Laws
Duration: P00H02M58S
Description: A song that tries to put the national trauma into historical context.

Nature's Darker Laws

from Together Through the Dark by Slaid Cleaves

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A song that tries to put the national trauma into historical context.

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written by Slaid Cleaves, Karen Poston

Ancient mountains sleep below the gentle sway of pines
Where ancient traumas linger in the murky mists of time
Where some men claim to carry on a lost, alluring cause
Their better angels ever led astray by nature's darker laws

See the man, from humble home he goes to work each day
Until he's told a stranger soon will take his job away
The sun goes down, and in his heart a quiet anger gnaws
In his veins there runs the quickened blood of nature's darker laws

"You must go on," our Father said, "Your faith will see you through."
And all day long he trudges on, he wants it to be true
But when he hears the demagogue, the rapturous applause
He's found the voice that fills the emptiness with nature's darker laws

On every screen the fear and blame is all that he can see
The nightly news, it shows him how to see his enemy
The radio, it feeds the lies the grievances because
There's money to be made by tapping in to nature's darker laws

He holds a gun and feels he's in control for the first time
His captain yells that fighting for your country is no crime
He joins the crowd and holds a flag that stands for what once was
In violence he's found a brotherhood through nature's darker laws

[instrumental]

Ancient mountains sleep below the gentle sway of pines
Where ancient traumas linger in the murky mists of time
Where some men claim to carry on a lost, alluring cause
Their better angels ever led astray by nature's darker laws
By nature's darker laws

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from Together Through the Dark, released March 3, 2023
performed by Slaid Cleaves and Scrappy Jud Newcomb

produced by Scrappy Jud Newcomb

recorded by Pat Manske at The Zone, Dripping Springs, Texas

mixed by Chaos Theory with Slaid Cleaves

mastered by Alex McCollough at True East Mastering, Nashville, Tennessee

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Modern day traveling folk singer. He’s telling your story. Writes and records songs that strike people’s hearts and become a part of their lives.

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