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Over the Dam

from Over the Dam by Blind Pelican

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Over the Dam
(D. Milliken)

DWM – voice, guitar

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when our plane came down / o’er the horizon / rattling like a tin can kicked down an alley / I thought for a moment I saw our death / and I was proud / and I was ready // I let go of everything / everything // but you know, we’re a civilized people / we don’t crash planes / and as my feet touched the ground in the terminal / my heart reclaimed its anger / and my eyes reclaimed their fears // I can let go everything / I can’t let go of any one thing / I can make a fist and not let it slip / not let a single granule of sand seep through / or I can let it all go // but what would become of me if I let it all go? / would the sun light in my desert tomb / or would the wind scour through? // and what’s left? / a father with his young son on the edge of a river / tumbling over a dam / saying, ‘I’m leaving because I love you’ / and what’s left? / a common-law wife with her arms full of weeds / and dead flowers drying on the vine / sighing, ‘I’m leaving because I love you’ / and what’s left? / a mother in a boat of ash / slowly sinking into the sea / singing, ‘I’m leaving because I love you’

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from Over the Dam, released December 26, 2011

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