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The Sparrow's Scrapbook (Demo E​.​P​.​)

by Burnt Paw

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One day I will return to find shining cliff cast aside my skin smeared over with dirt I’ll swim out in the lake I'll swim out in the lake Cotton Town was dead everything a wreck I saw a sign pinned to the door 'would you like to start a new world?' come and join the men who swim out in the lake what’s a man to do? smeared over with dirt clouds of mustard gas Sunday morning best women and the men they swim out in the lake one day I will return one day I will return
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USED GUITARS 05:31
used guitars you’ll find them here o my god they've seen it all sparrow bones and straw tongues hanging out for any drop of water in a town that's run completely dry cigarette burns tattoo of a girl there’s still hope for them yet one day they’ll board the train for the delta visit Charlie Patton’s grave diabetic twelve string suffragette cash-converter penitentiary blues second hand coats dead men’s shoes hendrix is from the tower block police cant keep up with his tunings louise has done time inside they say she lost her kids I know there’s still a song in her yet one day they’ll board the train visit the grave of Bertha Lee Sue Rider something’s missing hence price
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PRAJA 05:03 video
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TOWERS 07:23
born again man shakes a second hand tambourine he nearly set fire to himself in his sleep kevin just finished his shift for another week roll over beethoven scratched out on simon’s three string guitar the heart is a tower without walls two russian boys sit drinking at ten am they ask if I know any girls and if so could I please direct them there is a woman who is known upon this street flower blue eyes tea cosy assassin hat her heart is a tower with no key a worker fell from the scaffolding today leaving behind another empty space I ask the cameraman did you know his name? he says I’m just here to film another empty space but his heart was a tower of grace did you know you need a licence for that? we saw you out in Cotton Town last week you’re not the best we’ve ever heard but you played pretty good did you know the heart is a tower of blood? here come a child who can speak directly to god take another drink to be sure then ask me for a hug Bernadette’s husband died on this very spot Danny I remember what you can’t forget with your hand all bloody and broken you said death falls like a tower with no words

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'Of scenes like these, I say, who writes—whoe'er can write the story?

Of many a score—aye, thousands, north and south, of unwrit heroes, unknown heroisms, incredible, impromptu, first-class desperations— who tells? No history ever—no poem sings, no music sounds, those bravest men of all—those deeds. No formal general's report, nor book in the library, nor column in the paper, embalms the bravest, north or south, east or west. Unnamed, unknown, remain, and still remain, the bravest soldiers'

Walt Whitman, Specimen Days, 'Unnamed Remains The Bravest Soldier'

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released April 11, 2016

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Burnt Paw Edinburgh, UK

Musician & artist levitating near Arthur’s Seat, Edinburgh

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