COAST TO COAST
TIME SLIPS AWAY
We go sailing gently down the stream.
Drifting as we wake up from the dream.
And time slips away
as if it never was.
Time slips away...
as if it never was
or could have been...
All the lovely faces fall back into me.
Marvelous it seems that all of this could be
And time slips away
as if it never was.
Time slips away...
as if it never was
or could have been...
Oh want you come with me?
It's such a brilliant sky.
Those clocks were made of grief.
There's only You and I
unbound.
All our minds are healed
all good dreams have been done.
Sight and sound are fused
into this rising sun.
And time slips away
as if it never was.
Time slips away...
as if it never was
or could have been...
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AND IF
The doctor promises a remedy you can believe.
The lover frees you from the ties that bind.
And wisdom only comes to humble ones who can receive,
and folly greets the blind.
"And If" | Silvanus Slaughter, 2017
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MY TOWN
She owns her home and her SUV,
and her son, he likes his meth
and now, he's missing all of his teeth.
She says, "It's hard times.
I raised him well, oh what went wrong?
Oh can you tell me?
You've got degrees, you seem to get along.
Should I confess to her my fortune
bears the sting of decency.
Been living dime to dime for so goddamn long
and it's getting old, you see."
"My Town," | Silvanus Slaughter, 2017