It's a Dark Night
hot air hangs like a dead man
from a white oak tree
people sitting on porches
thinking how things used to be
dark night
dark night
the neighborhood was changing
strangers moving in
a new boy fell for a local girl
when she made eyes at him
she was young and pretty
no stranger to other men
but doors were being locked at night
old lines were drawn again
I thought things like that
didn't matter anymore
I thought all the blood
had been shed long ago
from a white oak tree
people sitting on porches
thinking how things used to be
dark night
dark night
the neighborhood was changing
strangers moving in
a new boy fell for a local girl
when she made eyes at him
she was young and pretty
no stranger to other men
but doors were being locked at night
old lines were drawn again
I thought things like that
didn't matter anymore
I thought all the blood
had been shed long ago
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Date: 2011-08-12 03:43 pm (UTC)[He went with her willingly enough, keeping about even pace with her while still giving the impression of following, although the question about the rooming arrangement gained her a strange look.]
Are you kidding? It's a step up from some of the places I've been, but it's still a shithole.
[If he realized it wasn't standard for everyone he might have responded differently, but he has no reason to think otherwise.]