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Stanley Syria

from Make a Map by Thinkspeak

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In 6th grade there was a new kid in town. I ran into him at the movie theater one sunday afternoon and we became best friends, stayed close, inseparable, for the next several years then drifted off to other groups, other circles, different cities but stayed in touch. He came from a musical family and he followed that path, which I envied, and I followed my visual art attraction though gingerly indulging my musical interest gradually. Jumping to the later years, & leaving out rich detail, he was attacked by an axe-weilding jealous ex-husband. Weakened by that attack he succumbed to cirrhosis

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Stanley put his faith in something that failed him
like a siren treacherous strait
Stanley took to takin heroine
born in Leo he must have been born without luck
I said Stanley when he called me on the telephone
companion of my youth take care of your self
Syria we embraced in Marquette in farewell
I stumbled but we touched once through the fog
god damn what fools live sometime where we are
murdered my friend I won't see you again

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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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