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B. Dolan
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Because his father was a man of the cross,
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Who said his son was a slave to the flesh
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When the spectacle ended, The charges were dropped.
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Marvin was left with a hole in his chest.
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He could've brought down a mountain
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when he pounded on a table
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or made the world collapse
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for a lapse in behavior.
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The pastor never spared the rod
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but taught the wrath and fear of God
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to stop this, godless
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passion from burning
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Barking from the throne while the castle falls...
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He had a hand to smash the balance,
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A voice like a vortex,
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A temper like a terror threat,
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A head like a hornet's nest
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Every day the levee breaks
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The flood gates, the bloody face
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The black eye, baptized in shame
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He brought home the battlefield
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Sealed off the exits
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Crawling up the walls
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Absorbing the aggression
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The source of his depression
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The hurricane raging,
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The awful tension sent his hands to the piano
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forged a heaven in his heart,
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but dragged him back to hell
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when the arguments would start
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Because his father was a man of the cross,
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Who said his son was a slave to the flesh
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When the spectacle ended, The charges were dropped.
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Marvin was left with a hole in his chest.
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He mapped the length of his son's back
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with a leather belt
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Sapped his strength with tongue lashings
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and heavy guilt
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Attacked his legs with such savage
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and deadly skill
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The cracks left in the punched plaster
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were never filled
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Patched together from fragments
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a sense of himself
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Advocate for compassion
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and the sensual
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As parents sent the young packing
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to the depths of hell
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The tattoo of guns clapping;
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the end of the world
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A marriage bed unraveling
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& a wedding bell
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cracked. He fell into drug habits
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the empty shell
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The tragic end of love's passion
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a temple that fell
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The collapse of such a fragile
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and sensitive will
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Relapsed to ugly patterns
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of kill or be killed.
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To combat the drunken shadow
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and wrestle the swell.
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Came back to the blood he battled
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Where the devil dwelled
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To smash the glass;
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and shatter himself.
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After the sudden blast
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A heavy quiet fell
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He asked his father "Why?"
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The silence wouldn't tell.
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After the gun blast
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A heavy quiet fell
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He asked his father "Why?"
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Because his father was a man of the cross,
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Who said his son was a slave to the flesh
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When the spectacle ended, The charges were dropped.
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Marvin was left with a hole in his chest.
B. Dolan - "Marvin" from "We Show Up" Li...
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