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Ghost Town

from Revisitations by My Roaring Twenties

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Anton, he was a mastodon.
Worked on the railroad, lived on a sailboat.
Traded it in at the Bargain Bin, so he could go and buy the farm.

Irving reeked of his learning,
sweaters and brimstone, weak in the wrist-bone.
Started with football, then king of the dance hall,
until he kicked the calendar.

There's a bar in Barcelona, saddles are the seats
and if you give a nod to the right person, drinks are free.
So, we would liquor up and softly stumble to the sea.
You couldn't count the stars because there was no night between.

Martha smoked a cigar, but not in the shop, cause that's what her pop does.
Begging forgiveness of the family business,
she wanted to become a star.

Heather lived on a tether.
The cage was rusting and Mom was disgusting.
Dad fought for freedom. She wanted to meet him,
but he would not be coming home.

And when the water wasn't any wetter than the sky,
we began to drink the drink that finally drank us dry.
The only thing I thought of as I felt it filter by:
There'd better be wild horses at this ghost town in the sky.

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from Revisitations, released January 22, 2015

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