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Kansas Train, Kansas Plain

from Every Bug Wants To Live by Matt Oleksa

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She woke, swung her head to the window
As her village was burnin’ down
Twenty years of dogs kept in kettles
Twenty miles from Raventown

The window is a mirror
It reflects dimly
The light tremblin’
In a gypsy’s face
And the face is flesh
It is only temporary
There’s soul beyond
The last bell’s toll

A long way from Romania
A long way from here
On the Kansas train
On a Kansas plain
Nursin’ a long neck beer

Pierced and poured over canvas
The artist does what she must
Cuts a stone swollen with velvet and golden
And is down the road in a cloud of dust

Dust is breath
It resides faithfully
In the word, in the song
Of the holy fool
You’re born here
You die here
The arrow pierces cold air
As it fades into the mouth of melody

A long way from Romania
A long way from here
On a Kansas train
On a Kansas plain
Nursin’ a long neck beer

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from Every Bug Wants To Live, released June 18, 2015
Matt Oleksa: vocals, guitar

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