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Can't Ease My Mind
03:40
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I'm not here to follow you.
but I'm not here to lead you at all.
I'm not here to doubt what you say,
but do not take that to mean
that I believe.
How can it be?
How can it be, that I can look for ever,
and that's no promise that I'll see?
I can't ease my mind.
I can't ease my mind.
Though I try.
Oh, lord I try.
The blade of grass bends
in the storm
while the trees they fall
one by one.
The drop of water goes
around the mountain
while it cuts a valley underneath
How can it be?
How can it be
that the line that saved my love
is now a noose around me?
I can't ease my mind.
I can't ease my mind.
Though I try.
Oh, how I try.
If I ain't got it,
and they don't want it
lord won't you see that it's fit
that I be freed?
These words they weave
like a prayer in me,
but such a cold thin cloth
against the winter of my mind.
How can it be?
How can it be that
I can look for ever,
and that's no promise
that I'll see.
I can't ease my mind.
I can't ease my mind.
Though I try.
Oh, how I try.
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Children of Shame
03:30
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The day I was born,
they gave me no name.
This poor boy
was a child of shame.
Lord, don't you cry.
The day I turned 13
was the day I left town.
The moon was my blanket.
The bed was the ground.
Lord, don’t you cry.
Don’t you cry.
Don’t you cry.
Don’t shed no tears for me.
Don’t you cry.
Now, lord don’t cry.
Lord, don’t you cry
The day I turned 18,
a woman I met.
Her husband, a banker,
he cried and he wept,
when he found us
in bed.
Producing a pistol,
he pointed at me.
But his hands they were shaking
when I shot him with three.
Lord, he never fired on me.
Don’t you cry.
Now don’t you cry.
Don’t you cry for that man.
With one single pen,
and the government men,
Lord, he’d a taken your land.
Tomorrow they’ll hang me
in the middle of town.
That woman,
she wrote me.
Said She won’t be around.
said she’s leaving this town.
She’s gone. She’s trying
to forget my name.
and give up a boy.
That boy has my name-
a child of shame.
Won’t you cry?
Now won’t you cry?
Won’t you cry for my boy?
Won’t you cry?
Now please shed a tear.
Lord what have I done to my boy?
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Salvifi Efficacy
I found my love
and then I hated my love
and then the World for
asking me to love
I do not care who my love is with now.
I guess I do...I really do
I found the Lord
and then I hated the Lord
and then the World for
Needing a lord
I do not care who needs the Lord
I'll never know If I need him now.
If we had a nickel
for every cause
they'd make more bankers
and tax laws
and they'd lobby
to charge us a dime.
The politicians
would say,
"That's fine."
I found the truth
and then I hated
the truth
and then the world for
showing such truth.
I do not care
who sees the truth.
I'll never know
if I see it now.
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4. |
...For Just Another Pint
02:13
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Mama, oh Mama
What I wouldn't do
to have another pint with you.
One more last laugh,
another word of advice,
but no no no
Mama, oh Mama
What am I gonna do?
My boy says he hates me.
He hates me.
I said those words to you.
You just smiled and you said,
"Not true."
I knew not the world,
now I know what I'd done.
How did you ever,
ever
forgive me?
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Another Dirty Needle
02:12
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"I love you
I want to leave my wife for you
and buy you bright and shining rings;
take you from all these evil things"
I said, I said in my three piece suit
in the basement floor,
at the church of St. Eleanor.
"You love me. I see it
in your eyes. My saved soul
won't be denied.
I'll get clean- Rid my veins
of these dirty highs."
She said, she said and put her bible down
and looked at me like a Lord.
The aura of a dirty crown
She's sleeping naked in her bed
lying so very, very still
a graceful work of art that only she can kill.
Dreaming of the riches in her new life.
I'm the diamond handle
but she is the knife
You think you are broken?
I can brake you more.
So many of you little girls
you spill from rehab doors.
It's a pattern that I copy
I just pluck them like a poppy
by the time that they've caught
I'll be bored.
No dirty love they'll deny.
No scratch that they won't itch.
I'm not married. I'm not rich.
I'm just a better high.
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6. |
My Canyoned Hands
02:24
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Drink my morning coffee out of last night's whiskey glass.
12 more empty hours that I can not pass, until I dream my way to you.
"Hold on. hang on." Your words.
Your hands through my hair.
With you beside me, slept scarred just the same
and you dreamt such words for me
"Goodbye. goodbye." the words disease my tongue.
I gave a mumbled whisper when your name I should sing.
Oh, the words I dream for you!
last night the streat light came in through the window pain
and an empty shadow laid right where'd you'd been
and still no words for you.
one day when I'm dry. the words will fall like rain
and in the graveyard of days I've left dead
I'll write them on the stone.
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Tenacious Bird Of Prey Barnstable, Massachusetts
Brendan O'Donnell is a musician, creative coder and writer living in Centerville, MA releasing music as Tenacious Bird of Prey.
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