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ghosts

by grum

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if you were raised right you'd be aware. opened the paper today on a whim it's all bombs & murder & who's suing who if it's anti-semitic you are well then we've all become jews suckling at the teat of money greeding up every bit there's explosions in the town of kabul & transgenders are taking a hit if it's raised right you were if you were raised right you'd care if it's raised right you were if you were raised right you'd be aware there's worry over the state of tibet self immolation & a nations regret funerals for terrorists & earthquakes rumbling from the abyss six killed in a blast at NATO hq in afghanistan election countdown needs an edge & I'm a worried worried man There's no bad children only parents is what daddy used to say I can see his point when I see how much consultants get paid if this is the way it's going to go I want no part of it I'll walk with the ghosts & pass you by as you sink in your own shit.
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a mothers love is nothing more than two hearts on the line. I would take her dancing if I thought she'd go with me to feel her arms wrapped round tight, each immersed in both our charms silent in a wondrous gaze, an existentialist mist timeless in a perfect love where the ghost can't get in believe me when I tell you now, I don't know what we've done right here we've severed ties collapsed & died, each entangled in our own binds dreaded is the night time slump, even worse the wakening it's times like these you don't need to be around I'm glad that we've become friends There's a kiss upon her lips I send her every night I wonder does she feel it as I send it on does her blanket warm her snugly & keep her safe at night as I lie here & hold her, softly & closer but I'm only dreaming I wish I didn't come apart at the seams We talk all night this last short while, through the ether into flat screens I want to see her face & eyes alight, each present in the sae place to hear her voice a woman strong, & gentle at the same time a mothers love is nothing more than two hearts on the line.
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faith, hope & charity faith & I went to the river, down to the river to watch them go by, these are the bodies of your enemies floating, watch them as they drift on by the rising tide will carry them all away from their graves hope & I went to the hilltop, high oh high to watch the blaze these are the houses of your enemies here burning, watch that flaming fireball raze the rising pyre will carry them all away from their graves here they come the thunderheads, here they come the lightning bolts here it comes the ground is trembling, here they come the countless ghosts charity & I went to the churchyard, into the church to question why here are only lies of the spirits they are trading, watch them as they multiply the rising ire will carry you all away to your graves.
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I placed some flowers at your mothers grave beneath the dirt now she rests safe I'm so sorry for your loss, we never stop to count the cost before the price gets too much to pay we are lost before we are saved, & some are never saved, some are never saved Darling, it's not you, or me. Darling, be all that you can be, all that you can be. Beneath the tension that was laid lies a love that could be saved with intent we could stop the rot, who are the haves & have nots would you rather go without chasing ghosts with a painful pout, It doesn't suit you now it's clear just come over here

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A collection of songs spurted out over a short period of time, bare, ragged, naked, honest. We all have ghosts, we all are ghosts.
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released September 26, 2012

Written, sung, played & produced by grum september 2012.

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§rum has worked with Jerry Fish, Mick Flannery, Kaplin, Stagger Lee/ The Dagger Lees, Von Bondies, Bic Runga, Cathy Davey, Leo Pearson, Deetrich, Mick Pyro, Gavin Glass & others.

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