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Junkyard Tab

by Page France


                                
You, me, and all the kings and queens

Buried in the junkyard,

                                
And every time the herald Cherub sings

We rattle with the car parts

                            
I was born to lie here patiently

Be dragged on by the black star

                                 
And you were told to glow majestically

And love until your hands bleed

                               
You stole your mother's whitest gown

Swallowed like a sunbeam

                                  
And I stole your father's crusted crown

It shook us like a bad dream

                         
They warned to lie impatiently

Waiting for the big swing

                                     
And you were more than dressing for a feast

Eat until your teeth bleed

                              
Oh my royalty my hand goes out to you
                  
You look painfully true
             
But I saw you cry
                
Like you used to laugh
                 
When you looked around 
                  
Were you looking back
            
At a lonely love
               
As to sprouting beans
                 
No one's quite as bloom
              
As they play to be
               
I would love to stay
               
But my work is through
               
I'm the truest song
               
That was never true

*end on F

J. Cooper