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A black man souled me my religion with his silhouetted blues and glit'ring worlds Carved my faith with an old fashioned mic and tilted cap I was a product of societies blue eyes and blonde hair Trapped behind the funeral veil being poured into our rivers from the polluted pipes of reality I watched God's eye as they scanned the deserted souls of our landscape Wept floods of sorrow through our illusioned damns of hope Leaving us alone to tend to the graveyard of our dreams Questioning the mimicing raven, that can only give the answers we never wanted to hear. . . But crying would be fruitless if we could see what's coming Like fishing in the mutated waters of society Shocking, but expected Then again leaving the hook and closing the window would just make us irresponsible So we slip into the sleeping game of time, sliding under the covers of trust Hoping to find a shield from the boogie man in the sheets Only to find that the boogie man rest here too Puts good night kisses in the pillow cases to poison my dreams And along with these realizations comes the drying of my faith in the old fashioned mic and tilted cap Because the black man that souled me my religion forgot to mention that all that glitters, is not gold
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 5:40 PM UTC
Follow the Drinking Gourd
A black man souled me my religion with his silhouetted blues and glit'ring worlds Carved my faith with an old fashioned mic and tilted cap I was a product of societies blue eyes and blonde hair Trapped behind the funeral veil being poured into our rivers from the polluted pipes of reality I watched God's eye as they scanned the deserted souls of our landscape Wept floods of sorrow through our illusioned damns of hope Leaving us alone to tend to the graveyard of our dreams Questioning the mimicing raven, that can only give the answers we never wanted to hear. . . But crying would be fruitless if we could see what's coming Like fishing in the mutated waters of society Shocking, but expected Then again leaving the hook and closing the window would just make us irresponsible So we slip into the sleeping game of time, sliding under the covers of trust Hoping to find a shield from the boogie man in the sheets Only to find that the boogie man rest here too Puts good night kisses in the pillow cases to poison my dreams And along with these realizations comes the drying of my faith in the old fashioned mic and tilted cap Because the black man that souled me my religion forgot to mention that all that glitters, is not gold
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Aug 22, 2010
Aug 22, 2010 at 5:40 PM UTC
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