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...Fourth Street was a bust
and Thunder Road's been paved.
I see all these starlings hustle,
trying to make the grade - but
there aren't enough nights in
Eden to go around, and that
black nigger-train you mentioned,
it's been gone long ago : it is no
longer found, and slavery's been
pinched, so stop singing your
southern songs. As just an instant
ago, it seems, I averted narrowly
the horror you sought, everything
now seems calm, as it ought. Do you
hear? Can you stand 'til tomorrow?
-
The horseman in green in his
rock and roll seat, now he means
nothing, and the children are dead,
and the shadows are beat.
...Fourth Street was a bust
and Thunder Road's been paved.
I see all these starlings hustle,
trying to make the grade - but
there aren't enough nights in
Eden to go around, and that
black nigger-train you mentioned,
it's been gone long ago : it is no
longer found, and slavery's been
pinched, so stop singing your
southern songs. As just an instant
ago, it seems, I averted narrowly
the horror you sought, everything
now seems calm, as it ought. Do you
hear? Can you stand 'til tomorrow?
-
The horseman in green in his
rock and roll seat, now he means
nothing, and the children are dead,
and the shadows are beat.
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