High Hopes

from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions by kurt van hook

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We packed up our bags And our thoughts and our dreams

Fought the illusion of musical screams

Never look back or Leave notes on the door
Mean quarantine for the rich and the poor

Trouble and trifles and Trips to the fire
Claims underway while we’re cutting the wire

Chloe and kierstin awake in the cars
If pillows could talk, then these boys would go far

We’ve got High hopes
We’re Bound for the coast
Where it Never gets hot and it never gets cold

I know the memory’s old
But if I remember correctly
It’s gold

They taught us to sing and they taught us to sin
And Jesus himself couldn’t teach us to win

Moms in the kitchen, dads dead on the porch
I’m leaving for Texas alone in the morning

These people they couldn’t catch cold if they tried
Red handed upon a bible they lie

They will starve and fall to the ground and they’ll die
Before they admit that water ain’t dry

Maybe I’m crazy and none of this here
Makes any sense, no gods will appear

Maybe I’m wrong and I never been right
At least I can sleep deep through the night

Stupidity pours down like rain from the sky
The right hates the left - don’t even know why

Maybe someday a young child will lead
Us old folks up mountaintop where we’ll see

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from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions, released May 26, 2021

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