Mayday (For Edsel)

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Anthony Oscar

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I was born with a broken heart 
And I felt lost from the very start 
I grew up mean, but I grew up smart 
First I rambled near, then I rambled far 

I caught a train down to New Orleans 
To drive a spike into Jim Crow's machine 
'Cause of all the sights I'd ever seen 
Nothing was quite like that New Orleans 

So many men sitting on their stoops 
There's lots of work, but none to do 
Tell me what's a strong man to do 
When his chances feel worse than the blues 

Now they say the river might finally rise 
And when it does, so will the guys 
'Cause you hear their thoughts louder than their cries 
And you know they're thinking keep your eyes on the prize 

Now I live down in New Orleans 
I still feel lost and I still feel mean 
But I share a vision realer than a dream 
That together we can take down 
The oil-slickened 
Dark money-driven 
Jim Crow-addicted 
Prison industrially complicated 
Trying to keep us under-educated 
In the name of the filthy, dirty, rotten, rusted system 
Called the capitalist machine 
Yeah, together we can take back New Orleans 
Together we can take back New Orleans

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