Listening for Lightning

from Blood & Bone Adrift by Tall City

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you can swelter in the shadow in the center of the summer, walkin to the window for a drink of faucet water. lyin with your lover but you're thinkin of another, braggin to your brother how you'll bring the two together. parishioners are prayin for protection from the predators. verses of the visions are victims of the editors. obedience to the priest can still get you molested. politeness to police can still get you arrested.

virgins drink venom, hoping vampires will marry while the cradle becomes a coffin carried to the cemetery. father dares death with denial, mothers making meth and ridin on motorcycles. the saviors of success are obsessed with their future. the altars of advice are afraid of their own failures. the boys on the bikes are buried in the backyard. the teacher in the turtlenecks tiptoes cross the trainyard.

you unravel as you travel, grateful for the grave, far away from your master who is sleepin with his slaves.

you're listening for lightning but you're lookin for thunder. the storm comes around and tears your town asunder. you're listenin for lightning but you're lookin for thunder. the storm touches down, you just stand around and wonder.

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from Blood & Bone Adrift, released July 15, 2013

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