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The Suffering Earth

from Ashes and Embers by Bill White

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We used to have the guts
To steal the payroll of a train
Now we slink on home in silence
To fill up our veins
With dirt
Until we're just another piece of the suffering earth

Things beyond imagination
You get used to pretty fast
What was sold as forever
Never had the time to last
Now it's gonna hurt
but it's just a wrinkle in the ripple of the suffering earth

Courtrooms filled with caskets
where the dead are put on trial
Rivers thick with sinful blood
Open with a smile
But they swallow you first
Then spit you back into the suffering earth

It's the power of the nightmare
The glory of the year
That educates with ignorance
And manipulates with fear
As we die of thirst
Crawling across the suffering earth

I never went to see my mother
Until the day before she died
Then my sister was gone too
It was a long and tearful ride
And I was left in the lurch
As the rest of my family fell into the suffering earth

I am lying on a guerney
Pushed from room to room
The nurses think that I amdead
The doctor knows I'll be dead soon
But the truth is worse
I was just a piece of the suffering eath


Do you ever get the feeling
Nothing is as it seems
That your life had ended long ago
Now you're walking in a dream
Waiting for the birth
Of a brand new you in the same old suffering earth

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from Ashes and Embers, released October 23, 2017

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