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House of Bread
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Genre
Pop Alt-Pop
Charts
Peak #69
Peak in subgenre #2
Author
Lynn Maudlin
Rights
2001 Moonbird Music Co, all rights reserved
Uploaded
April 25, 2010
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MP3 2.2 MB 128 kbps 2:24
Story behind the song
Elimelech opens "House of Bread" with this song and provides the setting: Bethlehem is in famine and he must take his wife and two sons to Moab in order to survive. More information on House of Bread and the short four chapter book of Ruth.
Lyrics
This is the house of bread, but we’re starving now. A wife and two hungry kids, will you tell me how am I to provide? In this famine – with nothing to plow but rocks I’ve got this piece of land here in Bethlehem I’d leave it to my sons but they must grow to men to inherit – They’ve got to survive – and there’s nothing to plow but rocks. Big rocks, small rocks Great huge stones Hot wind, dry wind Call this home – we gotta go This is the house of bread, but it ain’t no more God has withheld the rain and we’ve consumed the storehouse of seed – There’s nothing to eat and nothing to plant and nothing to plow – but Big rocks, small rocks Great huge stones Big rocks, small rocks Great huge stones Pack up, ship out Leave your home – leave your home
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