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Snakes + Apples

by Joshua Hall

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I write at length about the meaning of this song for me on my website.
joshhallmusic.com/the-path/lyrically-speaking-snakes-apples

I call this version "The Naked Version" because I mastered it and left me speaking the title at the beginning. The album version, which will come out later this year, will not have the spoken title at the beginning.

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Snakes + Apples

When the prophet spoke and came down the mountain side
The covenant was carved into tablets of stone
Faith in the next world, golden ticket to paradise
Turning eyes to Heaven, believing in a fallen Earth.


The animals were the first to be enslaved when the garden was left behind
It’s easy to camouflage evil as the word of God
The world is bent to man’s needs, Dominion Defiled
“A curse consumes the Earth, its people must bear its guilt”. (Isaiah 24:6)



Women are all vilified as temptress to men
King David raped Bathsheba, who does God forgive?
Inquisitions + Witch Trials, Indigenous convert or be killed
March to another war justified in God’s name

(Chorus)
It’s the original sin
Lead me not into temptation
With the Snakes + Apples
The world is man’s to plunder by the grace of God
For a god in the sky we imprison our mothers + daughters + our wives
Do unto others with these exceptions
Snakes + Apples

(Bridge)
How long do we live in the shadow
How long until we realize
The damage we have done when we turn our eyes away
Saying it must be God’s Plan

God’s Plan?

(Chorus)
It’s the original sin
Lead me not into temptation
With the Snakes + Apples
The world is man’s to plunder by the grace of God
For a god in the sky we imprison our mothers + daughters + our wives
Do unto others with these exceptions
Snakes + Apples

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released January 1, 2021
Written, Performed, Recorded, and Produced by Joshua Hall
At Jai Studios, Brownsville, VT.

Cover Art by Bella Pink 5 at bellapinkpen.com

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Joshua Hall West Windsor, Vermont

Described as a Zen-Metal-Freak-Jazz Guru, I am a classically trained guitarist whose playing style owes as much to Barrios and Tarréga as Mustaine and Monk.

I am an Alternative Folk Artist whose songs engage the listener to feel and think deeply, to find the reverence in everyday life, and to question the stories that define so much of the modern world ... more

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