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Twelve by Twelve

from Fallow Fields by Astride the Line

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Inspired by the Pioneer Press article of the Minneapolis Wet House:
www.twincities.com/ci_16774107

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[VERSE I]
Another day is mine to kill as I see fit.
Been this way now for far too long.
I've burnt the final bridge.
These walls are all that keep me alive.
Now the shakes are setting in,
so out the door I go.
And when the day is done,
there my love will be.
It's tough to see it through
when bone grinds on bone.
Cracks in the walkway
feel like canyons now.

[CHORUS]
I bare my soul to indifferent walls.
They're all I've got between the dirt and me.
My brick and mortar confessional
is all I've got in my dying days.

[VERSE II]
Days drag on, wearing ever thin.
Empty cans and coins pave my way to death.
I suppose there's no use living my life without you now.
Chains of the day break on the bliss of night.
And every idle drink takes a little more of me.
In the fog of my mind, let come what may.
This drink is all I've got to my name.

[REPEAT CHORUS]

[ENDING]
And I, I would hold on,
if I had anything to hold onto while my blood still runs.
And my, my eyes are weighed down,
with the weight of a life thrown away before my eyes.
Do you understand?
I was not who I am when it began.
But intentions and outcomes
are never the same.

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from Fallow Fields, released April 27, 2015

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