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This City That Killed Me Twice

from Copper and Gold by Bill White

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Because the system failed
You don't exist
Your life is up for sale
Because of this

Look at all that blood
Flowing from the city
This city that killed me twice

When news came of my death
My name came off the chair
In the hole where I was buried
There is no one lying there
Without a record of my birth
The company denies
Involvement in North Korea
Or the liquidation of their spies

but there is a deeper circle
I don't want to go
Filled with the facts
i don't want to know
There's blood in the clouds
Above my heads
Raining into the fields
Where the papers are shred

And I'll never return
to this city
Thus city that killed me twice

Face disease against my face
Throat disease against my throat
In the city
This city that killed me twice

The first death was by cannonball
After I had won the day
The second, by concensus,
When I was old and in the way
They took away my license
And shot me in the chest
Now I'm off the coast of England
And my spirit will never rest

I'll never return
to the city
this city that killed me twice

Heart disease against my heart
Head disease around my head
In the city
This city that killed me twice

I hear the crying
I hear the screaming
I hear the killing of innocent men
I hear the pleading
The pleas for mercy
But there is nothing I can do for them

Look at all that blood
Flowing through the city
This city that killed me twice

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from Copper and Gold, released November 1, 2017

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