Saw death today

Words by Bryon Bowers

Saw death today Walking slowly.. Out the brick mail room White feathery hair Tussled in the wind Hands clasping An ancient wooden cane Old knob atop Transparent skin Veins climbing [Chorus] Death takes a stroll… We wait and we wait… For the beggar’s last toll Pigeon heads roll Crows dance their last jig… on good people's souls He moved slow but didn't stop His assistant Close in tow a shuffle of his feet Vine tendrils in the street He began to hop Hopped like a crow [Chorus] Death takes a stroll… For the beggar’s last toll Pigeon heads roll Crows dance their last jig… on good people's souls torn bread a casualty of war on the ground shattered we are shattered all around lives… the pieces that fell off death on a slow time roll waiting to pay the last begger’s toll He hopped a frantic the pigeons panicked they all dropped dead he took each head skewered on dinner for the dead… [Chorus] Death takes a stroll… We wait and we wait… For the beggar’s last toll Pigeon heads roll Crows dance their last jig… on good people's souls he danced a jig By the miner’s well watched with glee as the mothers fell down to their death as the world did burn all at the hand of the clown king’s men people stand by and watch fed by hate powered now by the power of the state injustice of one is injustice of all the good people stand idle waiting for the clown king’s fall… [Chorus] Death takes a stroll… We wait and we wait… For the beggar’s last toll Pigeon heads roll Crows dance their last jig… on good people's souls

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