Silver Lake

from Sweet Sounds for Tired Eyes (Songs for My Father) by Tom Campbell

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"It's been months now since I've seen you. It's all the same. I play louder for our neighbors and their cocaine that they throw to their damaged ceilings to meet the rain and I hear them when they're asking for the refrain

from wondering whose side to say.
The ball fell into traffic either way.

I sit still so these old ants can still play their game of catch in the vast fields of my large frame. I remember all the trophies and all the pain that we got for always claiming we weren't to blame.

When wondering whose side to say,
the ball fell into traffic either way.

I pack up all my empty feelings and then my brain, in hopes that maybe, when the spring comes, they won't be feigned.

When wondering whose side to say,
the ball fell into traffic either way."

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from Sweet Sounds for Tired Eyes (Songs for My Father), released April 10, 2014

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