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A song about my brother deciding to launch a nuclear missile

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I’m tracking the moon across the sky through the window of the train
And I recognise this town from the white house by the railway line
There’s something about serenity and there’s something about hope
And I need to catch it all in one place ‘cause it drips through my fingers like sand

My brother is out there lost and the tide is lapping at his knees
I am hopelessly adrift he says to me
Barefoot white corridors, banana leaves and Jacaranda trees
These were the things that strengthen and strangle me

Ships aground where the sea used to be
It faded away and left us adrift
An ocean of sand and a shore of salt
A bucket of fears and industrial fault

He says Someone else might have found something else to be done
But we are children of an older god, and yes, we have strange customs.
So it generally comes back, when all is said and done, to another beer and a gun.
When all is said and done, it always, always, always comes back to the gun

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from Digging for Bones, track released January 1, 2011

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Drew Stephenson York, UK

Drew Stephenson is a singer-songwriter based in York, UK, writing conventional songs about unconventional subjects.
Death, monkeys and space hardware may all feature.
He is also part of The Southern Wild.

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