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Grave of a Child's Game

from RED DOLLARS by Red Dollars

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I get distracted and laugh during one line...but i like the rest so it will remain for now.

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I found myself in the grave of a child’s game
Stones and sticks , sticks and stones it’s all the same
Abalone coin and a tangled seaweed crown
Tide pools dried by a witches fool moon spell
Scattered plastic from cap gun shells
Ten more years it’ll be funeral bells
Grey suits and black dresses, even jesus has been to hell
Of all the friends I’ve left behind
In my never ending search of a better time
Of all the mates I’ve abandoned on the road
Trying to get nowhere and find myself grown
When the road to somewhere ends up dead
And we find ourselves lying in each our own beds
I’ll think of you and cry awhile
Try to remember the taste of your candied smile
A confederated blanket wrapped tight around her burlap bones
She said she’s send me a telegram when the coast was clear
So I could get off the lam and get the fuck outta here
Away from the martial music of this shines out Appalachian band
I’m just a dirty old thief cutting off his own hand
Well I found myself in the grave of a child’s game
Stones and sticks sticks and stones it’s all the same
Fasten the future with thrift shop picture wire
Hung a bit crooked but perfect for awhile
So throw fire on fire on fire
so throw fire on fire on fire
Object of your second hand desire
Switch backs and the two steps up
Switch backs and the three slides down
Always looking up but always going down
Of all the friends I’ve left behind
In my never ending search of a better time
Of all the mates I’ve abandoned on the road
Trying to get nowhere and find myself grown
Oh how longs it been, oh how long its been
Seems like an age or two, a lifetime that’s been run through

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from RED DOLLARS, released November 17, 2014

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Red Dollars Mountain Rest, South Carolina

Daniel E. Weddle was born in Charleston, SC, raised in Pittsburgh, PA , and now lives in a holler in South Carolina.

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