Dad's Farm
Tony Asch
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The dirty city rain, leaving streaks across my windshield On the highway to the suburbs and beyond The city monster grows; swallows lonely country roads 'Till the buildings stand with nothing in between Nature's green; American dreams Don't exist in harmony any more And everything, it seems so useless sometimes, to me Alone, I ask myself, 'What for? What for?' But Dad's farm still stands proudly in that space Outside of the human race, for awhile And late at nigh on the porch swing As the heavy trucks roll by; Far enough out of sight to be forgotten, I pretend that I am free And he sits and tells me stories, with his briar pipe a'glowing In the pale moonlight dancing off the trees And I sit with him and listen to his old, enchanting stories And I find, again, that part of me The city street have tried to lock away A gunshot sounds A siren howls The city never sleeps A young man dies A mother cries They say it's up to me to keep the peace But this gun and badge don't mean a thing When people are forgotten When life itself is looked upon as cheap And for every honest officer, there's one whose soul is rotten And it seems the good ones always take the bullets and the heat But Dad says, 'It don't matter what the others do around you What counts is what you do with what you know.' He says, 'An honest man don't live looking back over his shoulder, Fearing things that he's done long ago.' And he sits and tells me stories, with his briar pipe a'glowing In the pale moonlight dancing off the trees And I sit with him and listen to his old, enchanting stories And I find, again, that part of me The city street have tried to lock away I remember what you say I carry it with me every day In this city In this city In this city...
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