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when you were younger you burnt down the trees "to fight a new war with the smoke"
mouth near the ground to find something to breathe and remembering old knives you had sold
to the boy who once was a sailor to acquire a novel vocation
because the vagrant's boss is the jailer and his "paycheck is only his clothes."

so which way did that young hawker mark them, for a profit or to keep them moving?
with the "swiss men in the hop fields" you'll find him. he's checking out on a decent day's work.

the henhouse now dances with flames and our hero has called the policemen
"solemn family's praying for rain..." but his memory's begun to defeat him.
because the lunchbox kid has grown tired, busy storing these stories inside him.
and he's given away all his possessions just to prove that there's nothing that owns him: just to prove what we've always denied.

his last few years were a train wreck, yeah maybe a decade or two.
you hurt more people that you had helped, but sidney i will not forget you.

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from memorial lite, released May 2, 2020

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