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Yesterday, Tomorrow and In Between
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Simon Joyner
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He slipped on his stone face and stepped out the door
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Without a sunset or a train track to guide him
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He drifted down the road towards Texas I'm told
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With that split seam in his coat like Benedict Arnold
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The city that he left behind wouldn't change much they said
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Just a little more air for those remaining
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He was never good at facing up to his enemies
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So they always got the best of him even in his victories
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The leaves turn from green to brown or else they go from green to gold
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From green to gold depending
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On the light that marries anyone willing to shackle to the sun
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And give a fading thing a little dignity
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It was in this season of decay or waiting out the new ice age
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That he put his hands in his pockets and just stopped
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The cops came out and busted him for standing in the intersection
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And took him to the hospital to be forgotten
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Like a thief who got caught in the shadows
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And chased out into the rain
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You check around to see what's missing
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Because you know you'll never see him again
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Well he threw down for love and he stuck around for change
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But then he threw it all away in a flash
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It don't matter which is worse be it hunger or thirst
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It's a curse to feel more than you can grasp
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He was conscious of the shifting ground beneath his feet
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So he found somewhere else he could go outside him
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His body remained we had given it a name
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But nobody knew where he was hiding
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It's easy to get confused when the wind changes tunes
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And the birds begin to blend with the sky
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But it's funny how fast a heart can beat when your face turns white as a sheet
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And your brain starts building walls on the inside
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But some things you can't let in all if they get inside you're bound to fall
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Though it's not the falling so much as not knowing what you're leaving
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And I wouldn't know if it weren't for him or for that river others swim
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Lost between the end and the beginning
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Like a thief who got caught in the shadows
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And chased out into the rain
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You check around to see what's missing
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Because you know you'll never see him again
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All the paralyzed poets grieve with all the ink their hearts bleed
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Whenever they encounter a tragedy
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They rage against the dying of the light pound their livers all night
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And all for humanity
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While the clowns put on make-up and the priest wears a black robe
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To smother our little explosions
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They give us illusions made of smoke and mirrors
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When we're starving for reasons to keep on burning
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Now I've been wandering the plane with the weather in my veins
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Keeping one foot north of the wind
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To keep it all from freezing I walk the cold streets
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With armor stretched over my skin
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And I sing my songs for an old friend
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For yesterday tomorrow and in between
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And I'll forgive him for cutting himself loose
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While I hold on to everything
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Like a thief who got caught in the shadows
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And chased out into the rain
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You check around to see what's missing
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Because you know you'll never see him again
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