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Thanksgiving Prayer
A. Savage
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My money melts like sugar in the shower when I don't sing
Like a broken mockingbird that's put in pawn and traded in for diamond jewelry
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That shines but only briefly like the golden heart of fall
Where the afternoons went quickly and your breath floats in the final beams of evening
But I don't need dollars, pounds, or pesos to know I am rich
I got people who allow themselves to love me and are insane enough to be loved
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And it's funny to think how much time we quietly spend apart
You don't need to be a witness to have with-ness and I'm with you now, that's certain
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Civilize me from the wilderness of constant mercy
Guarding a nursery of light
That drifts inside me like a caravan of floating candles
Trying not to capsize in the night
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Listen close to the dark
And write down what it says
Like its words are your own
And dig a hole inside yourself and bury them there
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Thanksgiving Day is every day I write a song like this
When I get down on all four paws and drag myself by my own jaws toward a feeling
And a wise woman once told me no one has a single voice
You're a chorus harmonizing or opposing voices rising
Or a string of strangers waiting for their turn to speak
So every day, just ask yourself, who would you rather be?
A conductor or a cop or a night watchman slowly strolling an asylum
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Civilize me from the wilderness of constant mercy
Cut like a kite string in a storm
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Drifts inside me like a caravan of floating candles
Huddled in clusters to keep warm
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At the end of the hunt
When you cut what you grow
Will you have what you want?
And feast when fear is fleeced from the sheets of a ghost?
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When you open your eyes
To the sound of the dawn
Peel a dream off your brain
The film that takes the shape of the surface you dry it on
Like a Thanksgiving prayer
You can taste in the air
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