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Doug Davis - Birthright

from Round 24, Week 3 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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I wasn't sure I had a whole lot of wisdom to pass down, and I wasn't sure I wanted to contemplate the the fate of what my generation is leaving behind. So I thought I'd tell my great-grandkids a little bit about their great-grandmother.

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Someday, when you read this
From a long time ago
Maybe you can hear us
Through static and snow
And wonder at the mysteries
That brought you to be
The currents and the floodplains
'tween the river and sea

Just figures in a photo
Old haircuts and funny clothes
It's hard to see the woman
Through the dust of the windows, long closed
all sepia and sped-up frames
all static lines and Super 8
But she was flesh and fire once
And full with her fate

All these dreams of birthrights bound
Promise to fulfill
The dust from our once-beating hearts
Plays among you still

I wish you could've met her
I bet you've got her eyes
She never wore much jewelry
She never wore no disguise
I swear that she got prettier
The older she got
I swear she laid her roots down
The deeper the demons she fought

She always took the hard way
The only way to do it right
She never asked for help much
She lived to soak the sunlight
She cursed just like a soldier
She liked her martinis dirty
She never tired of dancing
And sleeping through the rain

All these dreams of birthrights bound
Promise to fulfill
The dust from our once-beating hearts
Plays among you still

I don't suppose I'll meet you
Ain't meant to be
And she'll just be another name
In the family tree
But hold us in your heart some
When you think of such things
And know that there's a piece of us
In every song that you sing

All these dreams of birthrights bound
Promise to fulfill
The dust from our once-beating hearts
Plays among you still

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from Round 24, Week 3, released September 9, 2019

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