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A Weary Rake, a Young Man (Montana Prison News 1971)

from Lost Year by DETONA

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A weary rake and a young man could sing
on the murder of our resources, genocide of our children
of the breaking day, of the breaking news of our wasteland

The man at his desk, can he remember the days
as a weary rake and a young man?

How many billions of dollars? Billions the slums will never see.
Or prisons, or Indians, or mental institutions,
or clinics, or addicts, or alcoholics,
another landing today, successful.
Young men die, bodies pierced and mutilated,
limbs severed and rotting lying in foreign jungles
unrest goes on checked by more deaths
[A weary rake and a young man]
sprawled in the gory pools of coagulated blood
[A weary rake and a young man]
how long is this all going to last?
[A weary rake and a young man]
He says he'll look into it tomorrow, Death,
[A weary rake and a young man]
because where man's head is at today, brothers...
[A weary rake and a young man]

A weary rake and a young man could sing
on the murder of our resources, genocide of our children
of the breaking news of our wasteland.

Can he remember the days
as a weary rake and a young man?

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from Lost Year, released December 30, 2020

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