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Closing Thoughts

If my cupboards all were empty, and my money almost gone
And my heart so badly broken I would sell it for a song
And an empty bed at sunset, and an empty room at dawn
Empty faces in the mirror, empty streets to walk along
If I’d walked through pouring rain without a hat upon my head
If I’d have slept on dirty floors and if I’d slept in unmade beds
If I’d bathed in muddy rivers, and in some polluted streams
If I’d heard the voices screaming in some terrifying dreams
I’d still rise up in the morning
Sometimes rise up in the night
I’d still walk the crowded boulevards
And I would not yield to fright
I would stand up looking stronger
In the hope that I would be
All the sorrows and the heartbreaks
Would be faded memories

When I hear about the sorrow, when I read about the pain
When I watch the past repeating ‘till I bow my head in shame
When I look outside my window, see the darkness in the sky
When the rain pours down in rivers but the tears have all run dry
I will rise above the shouting
I will rise above their sin
I’ll will rip their manifestos
To confetti for the wind
I will close my eyes in silence
I will kneel down and pray
To the double-edge-ed sword
That’s coming back again some day

I’ve got friends I’ll see in Heaven, I’ve got friends I’ll never see
And I pray those other friends will come and walk along with me
Walking barefoot through the thorn fields, walking ‘pon the mirrored sea
Reaching out beyond the waves to take the hand that beckons me
When my bucket has a hole
And my cupboards all are bare
Still my spirit will be rising
Somewhere far away from here
High above the painted desert
High above the windswept plains
Where a better shade awaits me
Where some better life remains

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from The Man In The Rainbow Suspenders, released September 22, 2018

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