The Banging of the Drum

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come with me to avalon
we’ll walk and then we’ll run
and then we’ll reach the border by the setting of the sun
the scouts are on the hilltop and they wait for us to come
and prepare to send a message by the banging of the drum

the memory’s a footprint which is filling up with sand
and the flavor of the wine which did flow from every hand
and the movement of dark figures as they dance the rite of spring
they could teach you all about it but you wouldn’t learn a thing

so they stick you and they prick just to keep the vision gone
and they try to eat your memories like saturn with son
oh sanity’s a prison it’s the world that’s in the wrong
but there’s nothing you can do except remembering the song

we could share the things we found but couldn’t share the gun
and i’m saying this to people who don’t know where they’re from
and how we used to celebrate till we knew we hadn’t won
and the stopping of the music sept the banging of the drum

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from come into your power, released July 1, 2023

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