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Carrying the Fire

by Ampersand

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Tight, bundled nerves and a practiced hand I guess it’s time to do this over again Indeed, I don’t trust no more We’ve drifted a bit too far from the shore Inveterate liars and the company they keep Corralled by fear, the willing sheep Has it ever been any worse than this Sometimes I have to ask what’s scandalous It cuts to the quick, it makes one sick That we’ve always been so degenerate Calls truth a liar, I lose the fire This is where we are, what we’ve always been Darkness on the horizon We carry fire in our hearts
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Better Days 03:30
Rise up the dark Quiet that sun Summer heat, I can barely hold on Slipped a disk And broke my fall What I once had isn’t there anymore Pray for rain On sleepless nights Endure the pain until the morning light My better days are behind me now And I feel like I’m gonna breakdown Aching bones And calloused hands All the trappings of the working man Torn up clothes And turpentine We’re all undone by the passage of time I’ll alway try, I’ll always dare To fill these fragile lungs with air When I leave this world, I will have made my mark Before my light submits to dark
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There were three graveyards in my hometown And I never did believe there were dead in the ground So, I hung around and I looked for ghosts Climbing cedar trees as I kept my post Weather-beaten and moss-covered stones Monuments to the young and the old Did they comfort the bereaved, do they cradle the bones Bring us any closer to our loved ones’ souls It can only be A sense of certainty That all you love will just fade away Time just takes its toll There were three graveyards in my hometown And the secrets that they keep never stayed in the ground That everyone that lives will one day die And the comfort of beauty only passes us by No, I never did see any ghosts Celestial bodies or levitating stones Mostly I just felt a sense of being alone A couple of miles away from my childhood home It can only be A sense of certainty That all you love will just fade away Time just takes its toll

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released August 4, 2019

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From the swamps of South Jersey

Existentialism and Nostalgia

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