The Potato Eaters
Adam Carter
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Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left The house was built on a grave of time On the side of the trees that God left behind Billy bought it from a desperate man Billy was in the working class A Big family till his wife had passed His daughter Ramona, was the only one left for him Ramona saw her father cry drink to dull the pain inside And soon he had no other way to cope But she thought he had soothed his mind And left those spirits Far behind Until the day she found him hanging from the rope Ramona grew and found a man to hold That house hid them from bitter cold They had a boy by the name of Abel That boy had melancholy eyes A sensitive soul that laughed and cried Ramona carried him from the cradle But Abel's childhood brain was fog His parents singing you salty dog Whenever their voices rose his body froze Ma kept photo albums in the fireplace Dad had another lover he tried to erase At dinner time they let out all their woes Mom would sit with Abel and say I wish to sail the sea someday But deep down she knew it was just a dream And when Dad left for the other girl Abel became Ramona's world Her ray of light, her one and only beam Ramona reached her final days Grateful to peacefully wilt away In the late October cold and gray Her ashes sat in proud display In the house now owned by the Only son Who's family's curse now fell upon The Hands of a boy who had no one Knowing his future he has to run Away Someday This house would be his grave He can't stay But some distant hope had shone He'd go alone Like a rolling stone To the unknown Down valleys of mist On the dusty trails Past bridges above Where the hapless sail Past coffin houses And circus tents On shattered ground And wet cement To the unknown bounds Of the restless sea Ramona's ashes were set free But the house still haunted Abel's mind He had to return for the very last time Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Own house doused in gasoline Burn it down That's all he had left Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isn't heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isn't heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isn't heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember Flower petals flow On a flammable freeze Gasoline glow Picks the scent off the breeze His own house grows Until it's back to the trees And not remembered Lone wolf calls But the cry isn't heard Pounding waterfalls Drown the meaning from the words Shadows on the wall Of the twigs and the ferns That missed the ember
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