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Tired Ghostly Town

by Al Scorch

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1.
Board up the windows board up this whole town developers are comin’ gonna turn your life around and if you do not sell to them they’ll just burn it down and buy it out from under you for pennies on the pound gas can matchstick they take it all away they might have well just took your life cause you wouldn’t take their pay boom town ghost town, what’s in a name? There’s no thing as good or bad when money’s to be made there’s a fire down at the pet salon poor folks are angry that the free clinic is gone and the library’s been packed up renovated moved along off to greener pastures where it stays light ’til dawn that boutique is burning and it smells like baby clothes the polyester’s puddling in a pool on the floor I tried to stop them but they’re going in for more they’re all gonna get burned alive going back into that store
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Chicago 01:56
Isn’t it a shame that this town is just the same as a yin and a yang with out the dots? ain’t no signs at the border except for cleaner drinking water stay in line and follow orders or you will get shot keep your voices low but keep them mean don’t you hang out in between the sky is blue and the grass is green remember what you’re not Cul de sacs and railroad tracks seperate the white from black high rise buildings filled with crack filled with anger no attack Highway 90 seperates so neither can collaborate to finally form a great escape through violence or a better way October’s finally come around still the leaves have not turned brown rain’s the only thing coming down water to our necks going to drown
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I drive a hearse for a living I do, hook up both horses to the yew give my whip a crack bring the bodies on back to the ground to their home in the earth All day long I hear mourning and sobs crying oh why was she unrightfully robbed from us from our love bring her back from above take her our of that cold wretched hole in the turf Day after day this scene takes its toll weighing down heavy upon my soul for I know that time that death will be mine and the hearse drive will look upon those that I know But I cannot give in to this feeling of dread I want to know by the time that I’m dead that I’ve done all I want and I can make my bed in the ground in my home in the earth and won’t you plant flowers on top of my grave and send down a flagon inscribed with my name and dance round in circles to bid me on my way to my home far away from this earth
4.
Miss Rosie 02:31
Come along miss rosie it ain’t our time to die though both the generals’ armies have blackened out the skies through cotton fields and cannon fire in blood stained fields we try to not be found by the army hounds drawing ever neigh I give no damn about a man who is so far away and why should it trouble my life whether he’s blue or grey I must leave or I will die I wish that I could stay I’ve worked this land so damn that man who is so far away
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What kind of people start giant wars over the bodies of dead dinosaurs that we liquefy and we put in our cars so we can drive to the grocery store and buy all of those precious things that give baby jesus angel wings? Your toilet paper’s dolphin safe you’ve got beeswax on your face all of your money has replaced the need to curb your selfish waste Where will you be when the world’s upturned your money’s worthless now you’ve learned we can’t eat it it will burn and so to hell it shall return Here we are a shelter dug into the earth now we shall see who is last and who is first
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Hard Times 01:57
Say it like a movie picture sing it like a broadway play just don’t say it like a TV commercial baby I don’t want to feel that way Scream it like a rock and roller whisper like nobody knows sell it like a five and dime store honey the kind that doesn’t close You were me baby you called me boy now you’re just a lady and I find myself destroyed Just like a movie picture this story has an end but just like a movie picture I replay it in my head again and again yes in my head
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Say it like a movie picture sing it like a broadway play just don’t say it like a TV commercial baby I don’t want to feel that way Scream it like a rock and roller whisper like nobody knows sell it like a five and dime store honey the kind that doesn’t close You were me baby you called me boy now you’re just a lady and I find myself destroyed Just like a movie picture this story has an end but just like a movie picture I replay it in my head again and again yes in my head
9.
Two Flags 02:47
He raised to flags every morning stars and stripes and the maple jack one for him and one for his wife and after the heart attack he still walked out and down the hill and gave that cord a tug stars and stripes for his country a maple leaf for the one he loved and she’s a strong minded woman Canadian pioneer stock he was a city boy who loved his toys and they spent their summers by the ferry dock in Wisconsin and it reminds her of home where humming birds feed and blue jays scree just like Ontario And the years rolled on pushed along by that cruel old master time she held him close and loved him dear as he slowly lost his mind and he passed on in chicago illinois she was again a nineteen year old country girl in love with a city boy and he still sleeps beside her, it’s strange but it feels the same, when she stops breathing in her sleep she swears he calls her name and those two flags still fly every morning, sure as the rising sun a maple leaf for her country stars and stripes for the one she loves
10.
There’s been an accident something that this town will never forget there is fire on the harbor and blood on the ground the foundry blew up on the dark side of town this town already burnt down along time ago the tar ran like water and the ash fell like snow now the rust line on the shore line just goes to show it’s rotting out from the inside a cancerously crippled giant waiting to die and it follows you, follows you, follows you round try not you can’t shake this tired ghostly town Do you remember those rail road woods that played secret hideout for the whole neighborhood? and the times that we had there were just so damn good could they’ve really happened at all? Like a drunk to the bottle like a moth to the flame like a widow to weep, like a gambler to game I am drawn back here again and again I cannot rest til I lie once again by that dying giant’s side and it follows me, follows me, follows me round try not I can’t shake this tired ghostly town

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released January 1, 2012

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