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“ Graffiti Prophet “
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* From my window in the faces
* As my bus drove other places
* The graffiti prophet spoke
* A gentle sermon in his joke
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* It’s not the questions, if you cry
* It’s all the notions that are why
* The passions of the moment pass
* And so what’s left is so what lasts
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* Life flowed past the tinted window
* Down a list of city noises groaned
* Emptiness was my reflection there
* And so to it my questions were
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* Speak some truth my public fool
* Stand and make or break a rule
* Share my head some ones and zeros
* Show my heart romance and heroes
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* The river’s not too fast or so it seems
* To stop the really mighty dreams
* You don’t think the rivers wide
* Till you need the other side
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* History shows in life’s attrition
* Reality’s not just strong suspicion
* So Plato’s light did come and fall
* And throw the shadows on my wall
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* Rust and rot on gossamer wings
* Dwarfs and Elves with magic rings
* A smell of life a taste of time
* Nine cents missing from my dime
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* Women bite and whiskey stings
* All the bitters sweet can bring
* 500 channels in the sky
* Showing us the vein’s run dry
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* Saw it through the chain link
* Tween the crack and boards
* Heard it on the radio
* Tween the minor chords
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