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The Buckeye State and Russell

from A Brighter Light by Brook Pridemore

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He started talking at my face about the government these days,
as though my politics were written across my shirt
And then a Steinway-sized obstruction, like the upright in your living room
took refuge in my throat, and put me at a loss for words.
I didn't come here to proselytize, I came to bring the noise,
but all your static's running razors cross my dome
And still the beating of my heart, cracked and chipped, but held together
keep pulsating like a rusty metronome

I tried to run away from home, packed a bag and I was gone
Left the house like I was going to the store,
but I got halfway down the block, thought my heart was gonna stop
ran back upstairs and didn't even take my shoes off at the door
I could leave this town tonight, move down the street from Endless Mike:
The Buckeye State and Russel seem so warm and clean.
But still the beating of my heart, cracked and chipped but held together
keep pulsating like a rusty drum machine.

I think the kids in this town are the greatest,
but I would lose my mind if I stayed here for more than a day.
And if they knocked down the walls and the Big Time crumbled to embers
I would save myself and watch the old model just slip away.

There are no dark corners in Brooklyn.
And a rooftop skyline eyesight is all that I need.
I have a family of friends and support of the people who love me.
And we don't go west to the Big Time's epistle of greed.

I heard from Julie via Michael about an astronaut who'd never seen an angel
about a scientist who'd never seen a mind.
Yet he'd spent his whole life chasing something whispered, and imaginary:
Something he had dreamt but never stood a chance to find.
I know exactly how he felt, I thought my head was gonna melt,
I should have left that shady grove for somewhere new.
With the beating of my heart, never broken never crumbled,
kept pulsating like a normal heart should do.

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from A Brighter Light, released March 17, 2009

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