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The Dark Room Act 1- Frailty

by Bill White

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Like Children 05:23
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thunder in the air where there was no thunder before lightning covers the city like a rain covering the moors catching a grenade in the trench with no blessing in the end sometimes one death pays the price for everyone but this time even the innocent were condemned everything went bright to white in the blinking of an eye there was no last dance for this song no kisses, no goodbyes if we awake to a roosters crow again and find ourselves dressed up in a different skin when we come out from under cover i am certain we shall find each other like children find one another maybe we will be neighbors on the same street or lonely souls in science class strangers until our eyes meet like lovers on a field of battle seperated by the accident of sides nothing can keep us apart for long were coming back in like the tide ill find you in the rivers rolling down from the hills ill find you in the flowers on sombodys window sill as i loved you in the day time ill protect you through the night when dawn pulls down the covers we will cut through all the clutter and we will find each other the way children find one another we find it then we lose it then we wonder what it meant ive seen more depravity than dante in his descent we either suffer silently or else we just go wild then pass out like a drunkard and awaken like a child the right time the right place we were there i was picking out a tune on my guitar you were combing out your ebony hair now im lying still like dirt on an abandoned railroad track and i wont get up till i find the way to get you back stars stars burning bright which is you and which am i mother father sister brother like children we will find each other
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Lonely in the Clouds 03:35
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he knows the name of every angel that circle 'round his head he knows which ones have fallen and he knows which ones havent fallen yet but among the men he cannot tell the profane from the proud and he is lonely in the clouds his head on fire with words composed in times gone by sung by many poets who long ago had died now the chattering from the podium is naught but meaningless sound and he is lonely in the clouds there is a place in the heart of man where no mans flag is raised homesick for his home on high he walks in a petrified daze the lining up above the crest conceals the place where poets rest like a book in which the flowers are pressed he is lonely he is lonely in the clouds
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Frailty 02:45
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i scared upon the wild ducks trying to catch a swan. i cant even speak spanish but im learning quechuan she imvited me to dinner then opened the bedroom door there comes a certain time in life when you dont want to be naked any more frailty frailty
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TI4 - 8900 04:08
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me and my mom had the same disease i couldnt come to see her and she couldnt come to see me everything that rocks has its foundation in the blues and if you saw mama kissing santa claus you might have an oedipal complex too TI5 8900 thats the only number i remember TI4 8900 times the only number i want to call mama used to call me on the phone shed talk and talk and talk and i wish i would have listened when she called beause she aint gonna call me today and id give the world for her number but its too late she doesnt have a number anyway TI5 8900 thats the only number i remember TI4 8900 times the only number i want to call i never should have tried to cast her demons out because i never really knew wha the devil was all about until he laid his eggs deep inside her brain and the doctors had to saw off the top of her sku;; trying to release the pain TI5 8900 thats the only number i remember TI4 8900 times the only number i want to call
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In Complete Isolation 02:49
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i didnt know it would be the last one i didnt realize id never again hear your voice soon after this virus attacked you i didnt know how fast it would take i didnt realize youd die all alone i couldnt imagine how quick it all was going through my mind over and over i keep recalling our last conversation im not even sure if i told you i loved you now you are dying in complete isolation taking your last breath in complete isolation the pain is raw i never saw it coming i didnt know id never again touch you i didnt realize your life would be over my heart is broken i keep recalling our last conversation im not even sure if i told you i loved you now you are dying in complete isolation
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Teenage Farmhand 02:10
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a modest gathering of family and friends some had come to say goodbye some were there to make amends everyone was quiet there was not much to say she was the village fool and this was just another day then steps were heard in the hallway and the preacher stopped and put down his book when the door into the chapel opened everybody turned around to look it was the teenage farmhand who had loved her when all the hypocrites in town had judged her he was the only one of the lovers she had taken who had not forsaken her when the service was over and the mourners went off to eat the boy who had loved her truly remained in his seat then he walked to the coffin where she rested alone lifted her gently and carried her home
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Houseboy or Stud? 03:12
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i took you ro the opening of an art show and got involved in a conversation with the artist you stood back and listened to our conversation and wondered what you were doing with me there because the time would come when i would know you were stupid and you were sure i would hate you for it and i assured you that i loved you and you said yeah, everybody says that at first\ houseboy or stud did you make it in the sack? houseboy or stud hang onto her a little longer before you send her back we were hanging in a coffeehouse folk music on the radio she thought the sounds were super fine she asked me how i liked the music i cut it down in 50 ways she said she felt stupid for liking it and thanked me for ruining a perfect day houseboy or stud did you make it in the sack? houseboy or stud hang onto her a little longer before you send her back
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I Dont Remember You 05:28
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i remember the times we had together but i dont remember her i remember the things we did but i dont remember her making love by the fountain before the donovan show getting picked up by the police as runaways long ago i remember her fathers face when he cussed me out but i dont remember her the grateful dead at golden gardens smoking perfumed cigarettes meeting each other in the middle of the night making love without regrets i remember the all day bus pass and all the places we would go to i remember every kiss we shared but i dont remember you i met her in ravenna listening to the music of the magic fern and i left her in a fairy tale but it was very real to her i was following my horoscope it was the stupidest thing i ever did some peole go sliding out me i only slid i still think about you but i cant picture your face you were always right beside me but i was in some other place we shared a bottle of gin on the ferry the night we almost ran away and sometimes when i wake up in the morning it still feels like yesterday
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In and Out of Time 02:55
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We enter time we exit time all must meet the end of time they say some will not taste death this does not mean they wont die they just might be the ones who find the highway in the sky that leads to their home on high without falling it is not the end of the world it is the end of a generation everything happens to everyone everything happens to everyone we enter time we exit time all must meet the end of time it is not the end of the world it is the end of a generation everything happens to everyone everything happens to everyone

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released July 13, 2021

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