G. Edward McBride - Empty Pastures

from Round 6, Week 2 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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I wrote this after reading an article about a family losing their cattle farm and were in shambles. So sad...

The syllables add up to 246 as requested!

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Empty Pastures (with syllable counts)

Rocking chair front porch blues (6)
Rooster plates hanging on the wall (8)
I broke when I heard the news (7)
How can we handle this fall (7)

We've got to let it go (6)
This ain't no picture show (6)
Heartbreak we might discern (6)
Like watching a church burn (6)
Oh God how can this be (6)
This farm is everything (6)
Welcome to my disaster (7)
Sitting here with empty pastures (8)

The land has been plagued with drought (7)
The feed prices were too high (7)
How will we figure out (6)
Another way to survive (7)

We've got to let it go (6)
This ain't no picture show (6)
Heartbreak we might discern (6)
Like watching a church burn (6)
Oh God how can this be (6)
This farm is everything (6)
Welcome to my disaster (7)
Sitting here with empty pastures (8)

I'm running out of (5)
The will to go on (5)

Sixty years have turned to tears (7)
Splintered my family (6)
I used to be so sincere (7)
Now I'm just so damn angry, cause (8)

We had to let it go (6)
This ain't no picture show (6)
Heartbreak we might discern (6)
Like watching a church burn (6)
Oh God how can this be (6)
This farm was everything (6)
Welcome to my disaster (7)
Sitting here with empty pastures (8)

(246 TOTAL SYLLABLES)

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from Round 6, Week 2, released April 6, 2015

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