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Potter's Field

Tom Waits

Foreign Affairs

1977

like that
And then ducks beneath the brim of a fugitive's hat
You'll learn why liquor makes a stool pigeon rat on every face
That ever left a shadow down

as the boat she sailed out of the port
landed up in the douglas head
enquired for a vacant bed
the dining room we soon got shown
by a decent woman up the road

on 'em
Dope money with a band on it
Half gold, we got a hand on it
D-boys still ball the same
Just gotta little bit of glam on it
Yah

I got flames

told by the martyrs
it's all just snakes and ladders
No one escapes the ouroboros
It's all just snakes & ladders
Half truths told by the martyrs
Yes it's

Oh, late one night when the devil came for me
Pounding on my door
It was quarter past three
I was in bed
And I was half asleep
When the devil came

Legacy

Logic

YSIV

2018

judgement
Tried by jury of my peers but where the judge went?
What will my legacy be?
Who will my enemy be?
In due time as I write this rhyme
I don't

burial
A wise woman once told me, "A miracle is much easier to see in the eyes of the needy"
Because the will for the need will always be, see

That's why,

"Rob Hall breaks up on the satellite phone
Near the highest point on Earth.
His life will soon be over,
He knows now what it's worth.

To the woman

your shadow
You got issues you aint deal with yet
So I get on the saddle
And I giddy up
Give a fuck
Nah I don't
Okay girl I do
Don't what the fuck I'll

and tasted, yet both live
And life more perfect have Attained than Fate
Meant me, by venturing higher than my Lot
Will God incense his ire
For such a petty

Emotional baggage
It will split you in half
Turn you into a former shadow of yourself
And you'd have forgotten how to laugh
It will drag you down

before I can gro a soul patch
Welcome to the jungle the globes axle rose from dough stacks,the code shine bright where shadows at,
Woah this tht rap tht

hill athwart a cedarn cover
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon lover

loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms now
Born in the USA, Born in the USA

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires

he loved in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms, now
Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years

Secrets

John Cale

Last Day on Earth

1994

to cry.
(dirty little secrets)
You see the last pioneer is waving his flag, framing the organ bone by bone, burning in sections, Twisting his flag

Stoplight swinging in the night
Guiding my way, I say

Half of that which happens seems absurd
Motif's in the imagery
Taunting me like fire and birds
Words

I'll take half
And I'll take others then we lit as fuck

I split a Dutch, taking a puff then soak in the scenery

I'm seeing eyes on a tree hearing

(Dancing Queen)
You can dance
You can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl
Watch that scene

(Mamma Mia)
I've been cheated by you

Down the Aisle

LL Cool J

Todd Smith

2006

down the aisle
My heart skips a beat, emotions run wild
Half of me is crying, the other half smiles
I can feel my stomach turnin' and tossin'

Three Wheels on My Wagon

The New Christy Minstrels

Hits and Highlights 1962-1968 (Coat Your Mind in Honey)

1999

galloping by

"George, they're catching up to us!"
"Get back in the wagon woman!"

Two wheels on my wagon
And I'm still rolling along
Them Cherokees

Long as you are by my side we got more than revenue

Girl you know it's hard to find a woman like you
One in a million girl you know that you the truth

Break

Saul Williams

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

2007

dust, kill, crush, break

Consider yourself less than, inferior to
Half man, superior to woman, unbearable likeness
Consider yourself almost, never

Cast aside
Like shadows with no light
Oppressions won by thrust
Gone to past

An image of stone to never be undone
For there's an evil thorn stuck so