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About to be Born

from Those Phantom Towns by Scott Tyler

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About To Be Born
Scott Tyler
© scotttylersongs 2010

The sun was rising on a desert cold and still
But it started howling like a dog beneath the wheels
The man in the hourglass said, “Time forgets from whom he steals
So point your nose unto the hills”
I was looking like I was ‘bout to be born with a rock tied to my neck
Cut the umbilical cord or I’ll crawl right back in
I could hear the women wailing, they that bore their desert sons
Heard them calling in the dark with the whippoorwills

I’ve been going where I can
I have seen those phantom towns
I’m still waiting for my end
So I can lay this goddamn body down

There’s a river running underneath the burning sand
But it couldn’t break the surface of this hard and dusty land
The man in the gaberdine suit said, “keep working while you can
In a while the money’s not so bad”
I was acting like a man set on fire but no rebel song was sung
There was protest in the pyre and I yelled with a burning tongue
But all the sparks in the dark gathered into shooting stars
That fell upon the world like a sun

I’ve been at this for a while
I have heard that coffin sound
I’m still waiting for my Lord
Just to lay his goddamn hammer down

All our father’s brightest ones
Have all turned into setting sun
One by one they fell behind the hills
Like dying embers and were gone
And we were left to find another song
To find another song

The mercenaries are as thick as your kin
And as close as the ghost of a lonesome lover’s skin
The madman in the moon said, “There’s help in just a mile
If you’d just help to catch the wind.”
All my sins rose like smoke to the sky and I would hide within the flames
Of every white glowing lie and every breeze still unrestrained
I find no hymns for the broken, just the breaking of the dawn
That couldn’t bear that desert rolling on

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from Those Phantom Towns, released January 28, 2011

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