Sharing a Gibson with Martin Luther King Jr

Album: Oh (Ohio) (2008)
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  • All the leaves have turned to leather
    I have lost faith in the spring
    Withered like a dark balloon
    I hear no robin sing
    Ushered with no shower still
    Oh the rain falls off the eaves
    And a rim of shady light
    That forms these patterns on my hands

    I can see your ring
    Is it camouflaged or etch
    Tell your king
    From me this errand sent
    To call such a hole
    In the kingdom of the Lord
    That we are afraid
    Where there is no fear

    Oh he fell into a slumber
    And did not wake until the dawn
    To see a band of orange clouds
    Cross the middle of the sky
    He got into a fluster
    He felt a tightening in his leg
    With such finesse he waived a hornet
    From a wine glass

    And tiny fluffs of the feathered life
    And you wander forth
    With your insolence and wine
    The fruitless mourn
    To whom that cannot hear
    What the fuck am I doing here

    In the ghettos of Chicago
    Amid the poverty and despair
    Inside the game hens
    Were the giblets in a plastic bag
    A cocktail which consisted of
    His gin and her vermouth
    Garnished together with pearl onions
    And dying eyes gleamed forth their ashy light
    Tiny fluffs of the feathered life
    And you wander forth
    With your insolence and wine
    A fruitless mourn
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