The tenth song in my series of songs based on Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find collection. This one is inspired by the thorny novella, "The Displaced Person." Almost forgot to include the keyword, but I overdubbed it into the intro, at the last second ...
lyrics
Don’t know what your good book means
the priest transfixed, the peacock gotta preen
Sorry people, sorry eyes
Sorry lends no time to sympathize
Man must work, if he’s gonna eat
Gratitude, winter wind and summer heat
Show me this world’s misery
I ain’t the one, can’t pin a thing on me
Drain me dry, your sorry trash
Stole my angel, pocket all the cash
been knocked down, just learn to cheat
and all I got is the dirt beneath my feet
all good souls find their struggles
you just ain’t struggled enough
Lost child who will remain whole?
finding your place in the rough
Have I earned my saving grace
Even Jesus lost his rightful place
It’s not my fault, all these extra folk
You serve them all, somebody gonna choke
Drain me dry, your sorry trash
Stole my angel, pocket all the cash
been knocked down, just learn to cheat
and all I got is the dirt beneath my feet
all good souls find their struggles
you just ain’t struggled enough
Lost child who will remain whole?
finding your place in the rough
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