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Goodbye, Jean​-​Luc

from Songs To Eat Popcorn By by Bill White

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Goodbye to language
and Jean-Luc Godard
It is the end of cinema
The last master is gone

The stars will recant
The planets hold firm
Goodbye to Jane
Her letters returned

Goodbye to the image
Expressing the truth
Goodbye to wisdom
Goodbye to youth

On a cold christmas morning
I started to cry
When i heard that Sam
Peckinpah had died

Goodbye Pasolini
Goodbye to Bresson
Goodbye Tarkovsky
And Francois Truffaut

Antonioni and Bergman
Died on the same day
Two thousand and seven
Seems like yesterday

Goodbye Cassevetes
Goodbye John Ford
And to all the good people
History has ignored

death has no words
life is nomadic
The pictures still move
In a world now gone static

We go to the movies
Its not the one we want to see
The one we wanted to live
Our names on the marquee

so it's goodbye jean-luc
there will be no last rites
Just break down the stages
and turn out the lights

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from Songs To Eat Popcorn By, released August 11, 2022
written and performed by bill white

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