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from Make a Map by Thinkspeak

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On a visit to my home town I went down to the ol' swimming hole which now was private property, fenced in with condos. This did not sit right with me (nor my peers). I went on from there to list some of the other things that didn't sit right with me.
When I had words to a song, whether complete or partial, I'd usually just start strumming until I found a way to join lyrics to music, find chord patterns that fit. It was only later that I'd figure out, oh that's in 3/3 time, like this one.

lyrics

By the rocks where I used to dive sits a sprawling fenced in house
right where sweet Katie Ref drowned she was just eleven

we're not just changin my town we're razin the earth
stressin out the vital signs and it's gettin worse

chorus:
come on everybody sing the tune we can bring it back
ain't ya longin for that mastery bring it back to one

2.
I lost my youth a lustin after what I couldn't have
didn't have the information I needed to act

the population of the planet cannot keep on spiraling up
the ocean rivers and the atmosphere our life blood not our dump

chorus

3.
the winners of the tournament got nothin to do with me
the borders of the nation state artificial identity

the bayonet the F-16 the random market bomb
the color of the blood is red the length of death is long - chorus

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from Make a Map, released October 2, 2012

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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