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10 Threnody

from Raw Story by Plucky Walker

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It's the end of the night and I'm packing away the books
Looking out of the littlest window to overlook
The city full of graffiti galore/ stories of pity and war
Littered with gritty people that pour

White liquor over their livers until they're warm
Throwing bottles into bodies that shiver/ winter the storm
Sleeping in doorways/ their families ran away
Panicky little animals/ loss of humanity

I cannot cry mama, my eyes have been dried in
A life that leads me alone, out to the highlands
So insular, but no island/ peninsula
One minimal limb just holding onto a pen

And when I wrote it I floated over it high
Built a hideaway faraway from the day-to-day grind
And when I spoke it, it floated into the night
Running through empty gutters and spilling into the quiet

I shudder under the weight of it all/ cover the cross
and mutter paeans to beings/ bring on the fall
I cannot flip within walls that collar me in
A scholar can bend light/ but not when he's inside

And all this reading is just feeding a need to get up
And out of under the lock and key of the cops
It's gotta give/ summon the water and let it fall on top of us
Solomon's seal/ calling the

Tidal messiah get higher/ bury the spires and telephone wires/
scraping the sky and making it cry out
Mama Tsunami/ Come on and call through the walls of the
crumbling prisons/
humbling visions/ run with the fishes

Pound me/ crown me/ drown me/ ain't no difference
Just take me from this prison of inches/ this shit's ridiculous
I'll never bend a knee/ send me into the sea
And wash the curse of man from the land/ birthing the beast

Let go
Let go

Everyone here's looking for some kind of escape
From drugs to the hunger for paper/ none of us safe
Another day/ another devil we can't escape
Chasing revelry/ painting over the pain

Reins/ let go/ overlord Gepetto
he can't make me a marionette/ his silhouette folds
Behind a curtain of clouds/ tumbling down over ghettos
Thunderous sound/ sound echoes

Settling over the bleak meadows of oak ripe with broken defeat
Til the alchemist laugh and shackle the gold from our teeth
Crack-speckled vernacular/ rapped
to cast a hex into Dracula's back

We so immaculate/ leak passionate speech/
til the last of us/ pass through the teeth of old/ smashing it
Put to the lash/ we been pushed to the back
Now the waters rise/ swallowing skies/ it's all black

Fall back into the sea/ O my enemy
I sing while I'm spinning this venomous threnody
In the wings/ Spilling these little syllable seeds
And we fly on the backs of these thieves/ hatching so free

Let go
Let go

Tidal messiah get higher/ bury the spires and telephone wires/
scraping the sky and making it cry out
Mama Tsunami/ Come on and call through the walls of the
crumbling prisons/
humbling visions/ run with the fishes

Pound me/ crown me/ drown me/ ain't no difference
Just take me from this prison of inches/ this shit's ridiculous
I'll never bend a knee/ send me into the sea
And wash the curse of man from the land/ birthing the beast

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from Raw Story, track released August 8, 2010
Beat by Diverse. All vocals by Plucky Walker.

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Plucky Walker Asheville, North Carolina

Plucky Walker is a lost island of rap, a freestyle savant whose hunger for improvisation and contrary disposition has led to a bitter lack of recorded output. A sworn enemy of swag, focused on vibrant storytelling
and armed with a dizzying array of styles, his story is one rife with near-death experience, drug abuse, larceny, heartbreak and incarceration. In many ways, the story of rap itself.
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