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For Those

from Quarks and Quasars by Thinkspeak

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I lived in Milwaukee for a year, 1991-2. Now & then I'd get stopped at a bridge as it rose over the Milwaukee River to allow a boat passage. Sitting there waiting this song arose also. I lived in Milwaukee 1965-70 working a factory then art school and drove a cab part-time. I escorted an elderly woman to her apartment once, holding her arm, my hand sinking distressingly far into her skin before reaching bone. She said, in a shaky voice, "Never get old young man."

The chorus came to me walking in a park and having one of those epiphanies, seeing into the distance, through the trees, and realizing the profundity of that, and of the perceiving, of being.

lyrics

Lookin over the cityscape drawbridge on the rise
traffic briefly unemployed coal boat goin by

holes along the avenue of those old and gone
winter chill summer breeze moan for those


chorus:
the winding river underneath the trees
goes back in space as far as I can see
not withstanding pestilence and plague and war and
economic downturn it just rolls there

2.
citizen of Attica chair of some board
servant of analysis subject of some lord

rice field in the first light marked by mountain sage
child at book child at breast love word on a page - chorus

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from Quarks and Quasars, released December 4, 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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