Everyone Is Screaming at the Sky cover art

Everyone Is Screaming at the Sky

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#INTRO

#CHORUS
Everyone is screaming at the sky
Everyone is screaming at the sky
Won’t fix a thing, but feels good
To let frustrations fly
Now everyone is screaming at the sky

#VERSE
Perfect evening for a picnic
For Dani and Janelle
One year since the night they were introduced by fate
They sip champagne on a hill behind the hometown hotel
But a storm with angry eyes rolls in
They raise a middle finger and scream like hell

#VERSE
Bad night for bristle-tongue Johnny
Drunk and cussing like a sailor who’s just come ashore
Keeps a photo of Dad’s gravestone in his wallet as a joke
At fifteen, found his father dead on the floor
Now, Officer Stone has busted Johnny
Stealing vodka and a Slim Jim from his hometown liquor store

Johnny hears the screams of Dani and Janelle
Echoing off the walls of his hometown jail cell
Puts his head against the iron bars
And joins them as they yell

#CHORUS
Everyone is screaming at the sky
Everyone is screaming at the sky
Won’t fix a thing, but feels good
To let frustrations fly
Everyone starts screaming
When life’s storms keep intervening
Everyone is screaming at the sky

#VERSE
On their couch at Vista Village, Gerald stares at his shoes
While Cynthia, his wife, strokes his hand
Phone call from the doctor brought devastating news
Pancreatic cancer for this self-determined man
Gerald trudges to the back door—slides it open
Screams at the thoughtless sky as loud as he can

#VERSE
Across the silent surface of Bloomer’s pond
Jasmine rocks baby Jessie in her arms
Jasmine’s dad turns to hide his welling tears
Worried the bank will take their hometown farm
Baby Jessie hears the screams that crawl across the water
She joins the commotion with her newborn alarm

Jasmine slumps into the rocking chair in resignation
Can’t handle this storm or what might come next
Wants to scream but ends up crying to her father
With fatigue, love, and worry in a slow-motion wreck

#BRIDGE
Johnny, Gerald, Dani, Janelle
Impending storm prepping them for pain
Jasmine’s tears release the thunder
Sky explodes in heavy rain
Washing down across the fields
Fists to Heaven, threats not prayer
All screaming for a god to listen
Scream, scream, scream but no one’s there

#INSTRUMENTAL

Now all sleep in softened moonlight
Clouds sneak slowly to the east
Slinking like a tiger toward the next hometown
Where an old man sips his coffee—and cusses the beast

#CHORUS
Everyone is screaming at the sky
Everyone is screaming at the sky
If heaven hears us screaming, why is there no reply

#CHORUS
Everyone is screaming at the sky
Then everyone retreats to sleep at night
Their hometown pain dissolves into a pastel sunrise

#OUTRO
When new storms disrupt life’s meaning
We’ll release the hurt by screaming
Screaming, screaming, screaming
At the sky
Screaming, screaming, screaming
At the sky
Everyone is screaming at the sky