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: 2011-12-19 01:42 pm (UTC)Oh man. That's...that's great.
[So much protesting; for a minute there he looks like a kicked puppy.]
But there won't be strife! It'll be fine. I mean, they'll lecture and everything, but. They do that; it'll be okay. Really.
[A sigh after a minute or so, and all the disappointed faces.]
...But alright, I guess.