And so I told you right from the start I cannot hold you to a change of heart There are things I could never say Too young, too old to try to change our ways I'm not the person I care to be Always...
Well loved for the home that was in it And the crooked fuchsia'd walls But with the sow killed for a belly full How could this a home we call? With heavy hearts bundled in wool Was it worth fightin'...
Yellow-billed cuckoo sittin' on that fence Looking both ways like he don't have no sense Sense of direction and sense of trust But he knows something in this land of dust And I sat lookin' in her deep...
Black eyed susans by the road In all those places time forgot Run and run from what we know Sometimes easy, sometimes not Youth is but a flowered field Daisies and forget-me-nots All of this a letter...
How the willow weeps In the wind it sings Though we've heard that song before But I planted this one Just last spring Outside my kitchen door For I knew it was your favorite tree And I knew that it...

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It was a bird, a petulant bird that pecked upon the window First so slowly, slowly then with urgent crescendo As if it could it finally could say what it had to say-o Its cry so muffled by the glass...

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Sing halleluiah for the guttersnipe lives He's not at all behind all your middleclass ways Cry no, i am drowning for i cannot forgive For all wealth is measured in stacks of days Pigeons and peons...
The last time the moon was full It showed its darker side The mundane had the magic annulled Making vinegar out of wine And the peddler wheeled his boxes A long way to the fair To retrieve his...

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Over the Pulaski Skyway Down through the tunnel of love A school bus in day glow colors Filled with bygone hippie stuff Don't laugh, your daughter might be inside The officer laughs anyway Don't ask,...
They are laying the siege The queen has ordered the walls rebuilt Stock of provisions and stock of skills They're taking their leave Friends abandoned in times of plenty Poisoning the beautiful moat...

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