Lyrics

Between wrong and right
Between day and night
Between duty and pride
The cop on his beat protecting the street
Wants to come home safe to his wife

Between selling loose cigarettes
And payin' off debts
Between livin' and just makin' do
It's a struggle to straddle that line
Between black and blue

(Chorus)
Between black and blue
Between black and blue
Between black and blue
Will justice shine through
And lighten this bruise
Between black and blue

Between force and fear
Between hate and revere
Between virtue and vice
With ultimate power and paid by the hour
A few stray from what's right

Between teaching your kids
To seem less of a threat
Keep your hands at ten and two
It's a dangerous
tightrope to walk
Between black and blue

(Chorus)
Between black and blue
Between black and blue
Between black and blue
The need to say your life matters
Reveals all the tatters
Between black and blue

(Bridge)
Between a force that exceeds
Between judgment and plea
Between pavement and a knee
And the right to breathe

(Chorus)
Between black and blue
Between black and blue
Between black and blue
A wager we lose
When we have to choose
Between black and blue

Chris's most recent album - After The Flood is a collection of songs full of heart from a seasoned and skilled craftsman mining life’s subject matter – family, work, love and love lost, childhood memories, and finding one’s place in the universe.

PRODUCED, ENGINEERED AND MASTERED by Doug Kwartler at Hollow Body Studios
Chelmsford, MA hollowbodystudios.com