Yesterday Tomorrow and in Between

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Simon Joyner

Simon Joyner (born 1971) is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Considered by some[citation needed] to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene[citation needed], he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, and Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone. He is also famous for the so called "Peel Incident," when famous British DJ John Peel played his album The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll from beginning to end on air. Joyner is named after Paul Simon. more »

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Yesterday, Tomorrow and In Between

He slipped on his stone face and stepped out the door
without a sunset or a train track to guide him
He drifted down the road towards Texas, I’m told
with that split seam in his coat like Benedict Arnold
The city that he left behind would change much, they said
Just a little more air for those remaining
He was never good at facing up to his enemies
so they always got the best of him even in his victories

The leaves turn from green to brown
or else they go from green to gold
From green to gold depending on the light
that marries anyone willing to shackle to the sun
and give a fading thing a little dignity
It was in this season of decay or waiting out the new ice age
that he put his hands in his pockets and just stopped
The cops came out and busted him for standing in the intersection
and took him to the hospital to be forgotten

Like a thief who got caught in the shadows
and chased out into the rain
You check around to see what’s missing
because you know you’ll never see him again

Well he threw down for love
and he stuck around for change
but then he threw it all away in a flash
It don’t matter which is worse be it hunger or thirst
It’s a curse to feel more than you can grasp
He was conscious of the shifting ground beneath his feet
so he found somewhere else he could go outside him
His body remained, we had given it a name
but nobody knew where he was hiding

It’s easy to get confused when the wind changes tunes
and the birds begin to blend with the sky
but it’s funny how fast a heart can beat
when your face turns white as a sheet
and your brain starts building walls on the inside
but some things you can’t let in at all
If they get inside, you’re bound to fall
Though it’s not the falling so much 
as not knowing what you’re leaving
And I wouldn’t know if it weren’t for him
or for that rivers others swim
lost between the end and the beginning

Like a thief who got caught in the shadows
and chased out into the rain
You check around to see what’s missing
because you know you’ll never see him again

All the paralyzed poets grieve 
with all the ink their hearts bleed
Whenever they encounter a tragedy
they rage against the dying of the light
pound their livers all night and all for humanity
while the clowns put on make-up 
and the priest wear a black robe
to smother our little explosions
They give us illusions made of smoke and mirrors
when we’re starving for reasons to keep on burning

Now I’ve been wandering the plane 
with the weather in my veins
keeping one foot north of the wind
To keep it all from freezing I walk the cold streets
with armor stretched over my skin
and I sing my songs for an old friend
for yesterday, tomorrow and in between
And I’ll forgive him for cutting himself loose
while I hold onto everything

Like a thief who got caught in the shadows
and chased out into the rain
you check around to see what’s missing
because you know you’ll never see him again

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