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The Reaper's Binding Call (for Momo)

from The Hobbit House Sessions by Jessie Williams

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Oh hell it’s been a day
I woke up with the locusts flying right above my face
Cursed before I even had the urge to up and wake
And now I am convinced that my existence is at stake
It ain’t so bad to die so young
At least then the expectations aren’t baiting me to run
It’s time to face the music and stop waiting to conduct
A plastic happiness because everything is fucked
And though it hurts to watch the ones you love slip between the cracks
They’re never coming back and that is that
And so we must learn to live on beyond the dark
And mend our broken hearts
Oh hell it’s been a year
All of the constant contradictions have driven me to tears
It seems the stronger I become the weaker I appear
As all my hopes and dreams float into the atmosphere
But I have learned to live in spite
All of the options I have exhausted trying to survive
Call me bitter, call me angry, call me what you like
Honesty is a virtue that I’ve come to recognize
And though it hurts to watch the ones you love slip between the cracks
They’re never coming back and that is that
And so we must learn to live on beyond the dark
And mend our broken hearts
Oh hell it’s been a life
All of the changes that I’ve aided have led me to this night
Looking bad it isn’t bad without a figure to despise
Although those figures always seem to invade evading eyes
You gotta just grow on your own
And stop expecting that the ending will leave all your problems solved
There is nothing to protect you from the reaper’s binding call
It is something natural that will happen to us all

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from The Hobbit House Sessions, released May 28, 2014

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Folk music from the Southwest

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