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East St. Louis Blues

from Stress, Unstress by Trochee Trochee

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Well, maybe I was hearing things, yeah but you seemed fine
When I was praying that you’d stay alive
As long as I was here in town to see you.
And you did that much.
I was in the guest room and you were in the master.
You were coughing like the end times.
Each successive bout was coming faster.
And I know times are tough. They’re ignominious because we all looked better then.

Call me crazy, call me callous.
Call me Catholic, call me Alex.
I was in the guest room as you gussied up for Mass.
I was praying that you wouldn’t die if I would be the first one to discover you.
I know times are rough. They’re obstreperous and I’m covering
My ears don’t stand a chance from the years that I face next.
Stay up tonight and analyze the family demons crawling out the ground.

St. Louis stay the hell away from me.
Stay on your side of the Mississippi.

When I walk alone to the Circle K to buy a drink you didn’t have at home,
I remember when I lived here. It’s cold most times of year.
When I walk alone to the cemetery and I picture your headstone,
I will drive on the I-55.
I will drive far away, far away.
But nothing stays far away for that long
Or even all that far away at all.

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from Stress, Unstress, released February 19, 2016

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A chilly midnight jam in a young Michael Stipe's basement, we've stayed in the country too long.

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