Minnesota Meets the Bronx
> holy godless troubadour
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> saint of beauty's truth
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> cigarettes and shades
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> acoustic electric real
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> all despite himself
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> wisps words notes for us
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> tries hard to set us straight so
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> he can find the keys
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> slim poet shaded
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> behind the lenses a world
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> where what is is all
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> history's losers
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> found light hope space or justice
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> in dashed-off lyrics
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> lonesome deaths or worse
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> songs sung and shhh shhh listen
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> all whispered demands
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> reluctant poet
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> his mysterious women
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> blueprints for Bronx girls
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> curly hair blue eyes
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> sliced into green eyes straight hair
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> across vinyl years
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> forever aged
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> his young blood blonde on the tracks
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> dispense theft and love
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> his words notes guitar
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> venomous antidotes cured
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> some isolation
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> slim medicine man
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> without advice or consent
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> his unknowing salve
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> highways horses war
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> spaces between the words tell
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> nothing everything
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> museless save for him
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> behind dark shades and guitars
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> kids pretend to know
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> songs of souls' desires
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> innocent criminal finds
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> you me and himself?
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> pissed off cranky faced
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> chubby baby cheeks tell of
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> loss more loss and hope?
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> slim still no wiser
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> wise enough for forty years
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> screw the weatherman
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