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Gallowman

from Allegoria by Melanie A. Davis

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The gallowman is coming, I’ve seen him on cable
TV. Folks had started running, but there’s tripwire
in the streets. I got a man that says he don’t want
me - but that I’d die before he’d let me walk away free.
The world is ending, but we’re fine with just pretending
that the problem’s to be fixed another time.
Orwellian nightmares, gilded in gold - keep your
eyes on your paper, and do as your told.
Somewhere in the fuss, I’d gotten old.
Woke up in the evening scared to leave my front door.
Sorry way of being, an apathetic feeling that there’s
nothing we can do anymore. The lie we’ve been fed
of a dream reappears, abiding by the parameters of
fading frontiers.
The world is ending but we’re fine with just pretending
that the problem’s to be fixed another time.
Orwellian nightmares, gilded in gold - keep your
eyes on your paper, and do as your told.
Somewhere in the fuss, I’d gotten old.
The world is ending so I’m told. She keeps
descending into quicksand made of marigolds,
but I won’t see the empire fall, for I am now too old
to pave a way, to care at all,
the corn’s still growing but the farm is sold.

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from Allegoria, released January 24, 2020
vox/guitar/tambourine: Melanie A. Davis
Recorded @ Loud and Clear Studios (Paducah, KY)

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Melanie A. Davis Murray, Kentucky

Singer-songwriter from western Kentucky. I sing about me, you, us, and the wild weird world we're currently living in.

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