Free song download. Lyrics below © Dennis M. Lowery
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Lyrics © Dennis M. Lowery
The cemetery scatters,
dark coats go wide.
The late screams break
on every side.
Two rows over,
the work is done —
them that did it...
they don’t run.
One man stands
where the wall runs flat,
hands at his sides —
he don’t move from that.
The one still thing
where the rest all run,
squared to the open...
like he ain’t done.
I know that face…
the name comes through —
comes up whole,
hard and true.
Hold that name
behind my teeth,
taste the bitter wrong.
As the years sweep…
…me along...
No one to care...
no name to call —
the million miles gone…
no distance at all…
My right hand closes
on nothing there —
the haft, the heft,
the grip, the care.
I put that life
under grass and stone,
it climbs back up...
finds me alone.
His face goes still...
then changes slow:
one job behind him,
and one to go.
The name I buried
won’t lie still —
thirty-one years,
and it never will.
It never will...
Never...
Will...
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