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Dig it up

When I was young I banged upon a drum
When I was young I banged upon a drum
The sounds in my head I wish that I could beget
But when I was young I banged upon a drum

Over the hill a man is digging a quarry
Over the hill a man is digging for stone
Blocks as big as cars by the roadside
Waiting for the yellow train to come
To come

I built padding all across my walls
To control the sound better than before
You don’t know what its like with the ringing in your skull
The tiles on the floor in Spanish architecture

Dig it away
Dig it away

Each day I walk on the iron ore
One day a man will dig up that floor
Metal in the stone
Metal if you melt it out
In a cauldron baby, twist and shout

Dig it up
Out of the ground
Dig it up
Hey look what I found
Dig it up
Dig it up now
Dig it up
Out of the ground

Trauma
When I look at your phone
I just want you to be all right
And your emotions are torn
Trauma
Don’t need no sunshine

Trauma in your eyes
And your words that you type
Trauma in your mind

I remember a painting
On the wall
Can’t remember what station
Had this mural

Could have been Maidstone
Or maybe Sevenoaks
Something in my mind nagging all the time
Says Tunbridge Wells was close

The painting showed people
People from across the age
A woman in black and white
Simple clothes
Looked all right

Its funny what the mind reminisces on
Funny when these images come and go
Its been so long so many years since I sat on the train
With the orange ticket in my hand
With the orange-sided ticket in my hand

In my hand

Sometimes I wish for the Age of Steam
Going everywhere in a railway carriage fit for a King
Wooden sides
Racing green
Coal-smoke rising
Everything gonna get you on time
Get you on time

What is time?
What is time?

Looked at my phone
I see your words
Claim that I put there
Wish I could help
I love you so much
You did nothing wrong
Have a child with me
Don’t think of it as gone
Don’t think of it as gone

One last thing
One last thing

There’s a light up on the hill
I just seen it now
There a light up on the hill
Could be hunter could be a car
There’s a light up on the hill
Didn’t see it before
Doesn’t mean It wasn’t there at all
At all
At all

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from A Turn Around the Maypole, released August 14, 2022

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