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Age Of Reason

from Hophorn Hornbeam by Hophorn Hornbeam

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Has anybody seen my wife
She’s got a dollar or two of mine and I’m without a dime
But ah well now, she’s probably already spent it
Could you tell the taxman that for me
I’m sure he’s more inclined to agree with you
Unless it’s your door he’s knocking on next

Well it took them a good ten years to catch up to me
But it’ll take more guns than that to put me down in the ground
More taxes on my head to lay my burdens down

Thirty and seven months pregnant
With a man who ain’t of my dreams but he’s honest and he’s ageing well
And my job placates me, or so it seems
But oh, once I lived and oh, how I lived
In the cities of the world
Getting by on looks and occasional crooks who would
Throw five down for a drink with a girl

But darkness on baby’s birthday gives rise to the hegemonic cry
Oh wonder oh wonder, oh what’s the use
When nothing lays ahead but a few new ways to die

There’s only so many fights that a man can lose before he’s bound to give up
Only so many times that a woman can try till she knows that it’s never enough
Only when every corner of western thought is kicked while they’re down in the back
Will we come to understand there is too much to ask

So fathers don’t let your children grow up to be cowboys like you
Too cussed to live and too mean to die
And holding onto fear like reason
Though you’ve long lost the reasons why

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from Hophorn Hornbeam, released August 28, 2020

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