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Hot Blind Earth

from River Kids by Davey Halfbeard

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The title and the line from which it's derived "I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth" is a part of a in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying

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When I went to bed, my fish was swimming
In the morning he was dead, the tears started brimming

Had he been there all night? Did he die alone?
And I’ll never feel alright, until I feel it in my bones

I’ll never feed him again, I’ll never clean his tank
And when I get sad now and then, I know I’ll have him to thank

It’s not what he’d want for me, I think he’d want me to smile
I don’t think he wanted to go, but he’d been sick for a while

I feel like a wet seed wild, in the hot blind earth
I feel like an unborn child, waiting for his birth

I’m not sure what comes next, now that you’re gone
When everyone pays their respect, am I supposed to move on?

I’ll miss the way you looked up at me, although I think it was the other way around
I’ll miss the way your eyes reflect mine, once you’re back in the ground

But I know
All the pain is gone, you’re not hurting anymore
But I still wish that we could go back to the way things were before

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from River Kids, released October 7, 2016

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Davey Halfbeard Orono, Maine

I've seen a thing or two. Hell maybe nine or ten things more. I know what trouble sounds like and it's knocking at your door.

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