Perennial Bloom

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Legendary bush pilots
Sports fans for the love of the game
Relics of the past, faceless forgotten names

These days Frankie waits
For a man who shoots more than blanks and
Johnny writes cheques to cover the lawyer’s gains

I guess they wouldn’t care
What you’d choose to call your own
But to have another crack at it, would they choose to grow

Wolf hunting from a helicopter
Witch burnings, lynchings and wars to kill off the poor
If you ain’t feeling sorry
I’ll give you something to feel sorry for

With church doors locked nowadays
Corpses wash up on uncaring waves
It’s a funny thing – a line on a map
I pledge allegiance to this or to that

Disturbed by a spot of light
You won’t get a nod tonight
You wait, eyes burning and ready for flight
Come comrades, let us weed our minds

Sky’s too red
Take it down and paint it blue
Good luck, sing the children, perfecting the hue

Dead relatives cry and it falls like rain as they
Turn ‘round in their graves
You look on down swearing ‘I ain’t gonna go that way’

But would you wait and wait
As waiting is the greatest sin of a slave
It’s not that life don’t have nothing to offer
But too much to take away

I guess you wouldn’t care
What they’ll choose to call their own
But to have another crack at it
Would you choose to grow

In the evening with everything kissed
In a warm pink light
It causes me sometimes to stop and think
Hell, maybe we’ll get things right

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from Hophorn Hornbeam, released August 28, 2020

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