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TwentyOneThousand

from The Circulatory Chaotic by a brown leaf

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there’s twenty one thousand souls in a jar on the road from omaha
some only whisper, while others can smile, but some they don’t move at all
they look like your brothers and what’s left of your friends
no one believes this is happening again
they said he’d swing before the song ends
and the world just might be yet

for the twenty one thousand souls in a box in the air over syracuse
we’ll eulogize candlelight, pictures and frames for the rights we were born to abuse
i’ve seen a man with a face like a stone
he shakes in the bed of his well-guarded home
while three thousand other ones travel alone
as their poems are no longer told


my dad went to college, the first in the line
sean didn’t finish so they just bought his time
and jeremy came back but he wasn’t the same
his face couldn’t prove he remembered my name
now there’s something that each of them lack
bullets aren’t the only attack
let’s bring them all back


all the twenty one thousand souls in hole in the desert near mexico
mothers and wives are singing to children about the dads that they’ll never know
boyfriends are cooking and eating alone
picturing a face while they slowly get stoned
the calendar’s hanging, but it’s accident prone
and it’s moving a little too slow

there’s lead in the air and smoke in the streets
i guess that their freedom doesn’t fucking come free
but those souls aren’t forgotten, they will always be
a little more than a sticker to me
a little more than a candle lit street

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from The Circulatory Chaotic, released April 18, 2007

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