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From Miami to Portland

from Dream I Had by Quinn Cicala

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A man walks into a crowded room and he sits right next to me
And everyone is talking loud as far as I can see and I don't engage because I figure there's no other open seats
And I'm just drinking coffee and I'm reading on my phone and as far as I can tell I feel comfortable at home in my hometown
This guy might be an out of towner
And he's looking at me until I look back at him
And he says "I've seen four years of combat my son, I would know of everything they don't want to show; it's the government, I'm into it, and I can see as far as the eye can see"
And I look and I tell him he is crazy, I say "get out of my face and let me drink my coffee in peace
I wouldn't bother you if you hadn't sat next to me"
And he gets up and he walks out of the front door next to the children smoking cigarettes on the sidewalk where the pavement ends and he screams
He screams "Lord I'm gonna die some day, one day this body of mine will stop moving and Lord I'm gonna cry some day when I see a child of mine that is breathing and Lord I'm gonna lie some day when everyone in my life asks me if I'm okay"
And needless to say I never saw him again
I wonder whatever happened to him
I think when it gets cold out and the nights are long and the summer breeze is dead and gone and everyone has their share of stupid problems and all of the fights are won
I think that's when people grow again and it's also when people die well I'm not the dying type and I know this because I think I've already died twice once in my mother's grave and my brother's too
Well how much fucking dying can you do?
I was the patron, I was the saint, I am the man who screams at the top of his lungs until he faints and now I am driving around
From Miami to Portland, I will be on the run and while the night is young, I suppose I will never see the sun or the faces of people I love or the man who haunts my dreams
It seems I'll never make it out in one piece

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from Dream I Had, released February 10, 2017

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