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Lullaby For The Sleeping Elephant

from Old Blood by Mayday

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“Silent Night, the prairie evening brightened by the stars, they shine relentlessly in every direction. Francis, come here, fetch your brother another beer, one before he stumbles off to war. Alex, my boy, I watched you growin up stabbing at invisible enemies don’t get yourself killed fighting someone else’s bloody cause. Frances, come on, play your brothers favorite song. . . .the one about the horse that broke the fence and threw the jockey to a bloody 4 ft mess”

Francis: The racehorse once broke through the fence
And ran towards a blood orange sunset
They used to call him Gluestick
Now it’s Thunderclap!

“Alex, my son, please don’t ever forget this place you come from, don’t get yourself killed fighting someone else’s horseshit cause. Your grandfather Babe was a farmer by trade but a solid fighter in his day. Just like Ali, just like the people’s party prophesises an analogy: An elephant sleeping will awaken one day”

Jonathan: The elephant rises to his knees
Breathes out such thunder 360 degrees
Then tramples down his oppressors with ease
Then tramples down all that he sees

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from Old Blood, released May 6, 2002

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