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this time has come
the grey skies have grown too dreary
while my grey eyes grow so weary
how can i live with this anymore?

too pushed to be known
this silent barrage, truth offensive
too tough to be so defensive
but to look into the eyes
of the weak and the old
to be sold in the undertow

the lamb lit the sky
it was a wonderful sight
and the party, interrupted
by her inference
the hero took the villain
to innumerable heights
in the summer night

too new to be scene
in his forever defunct revolution
this bankrupt devolution
and evolve to conditions
of mercy and the old ways
to be sold away in the undertow

and the children cry
with their wounds as the scars
with which we grow
not just humility we hide
say we don't know
and this, the last of which
we read but not follow
so we continue to be sold away
in the wake of the undertow

the lamb lit the sky
it was a wonderful sight
and the party, interrupted
by her inference
the hero took the villain
to a new world height
in the summer light

how can i stand the
absurdness of this, the aggressor?
their sublime is their only progressor
stopped dead in the tracks of the undertow

if you can sign me away
sign me away as a martyr
sign me away as a child
just don't sign me away for your greed
and your grief, and your gold
sell-out to the undertow

the lamb lit the sky
it was a wonderful sight
and the party, interrupted
by her inference
the hero took the villain
to innumerable heights
in the summer night
the lamb lit the sky
it was a wonderful sight
and the party, interrupted
by her inference
the hero took the villain
to a new world height
in the summer light

-June 1993

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from Say Hello EP (fdm138), released February 2, 2022

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Chris Anderson Alexandria, Virginia

Chris is a wildly prolific songwriter who has hovered among the outskirts of the music world for over 30 years. On his own label, Flying Dachshund Music, Chris has released 154 CDs, 96 of them being full-length albums. That's just the tip of the iceberg and there are no signs of stopping. Ever.

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