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The East

from Doing What I Can by James Plunkett

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The East

Rolling Stone magazine looks me in the eye
Someone’s burned the Christmas tree
Set it all on fire
But there’s no working wage for me today
So I guess I’ll just sit and play

These days I’m in the sticks oh its all I see
And every morning wake up with a letter from Italy
I try to feel some gentleness
But just end up staring at my feet

And all my friends in Brooklyn Ma they called me on the phone
They talk about their bicycles and how we’re all alone
Well my patience has grown thin for that taste of tragedy

And all the trust fund kids dying for our sins
Yes all the trust fund kids dying for our sins
I’d like to thank them on this day but say
I never really like them anyway

And the liberal babies they just read and sigh
Oh all the liberal babies who never scream or cry
And who’s really winning the war on our minds?

I heard about Mandela’s death on the BBC
It was rainy season in the East and I heard the sea
Or a continent only asking why me?

Send me to Aleppo Mr. President
I know I’ll be no help for these harsh events
But I’m sick of watching all the bleeding hearts in my blue jeans

I used to have a lonesome part stuck into my side
Oh I used to have a lonesome part from which I could not hide
But now it lays upon the pavement
Where I set it on fire

If all the notebooks the kids used just to survive
Were bound and given freely
Even publicized
Then the visions I’m having lately might just stick around for a while

And if the black dog I’ve been seeing on the road
Is just a hallucination from the stories I’ve been told
I’d like to thank my friends and say
I’m about ready to get old
Yes I’d like to thank the kids that meant it
And say I think it’s time we start getting old.

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from Doing What I Can, released January 25, 2014

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James Plunkett is a songwriter first and foremost. His songs are deeply inspired by place, and have been written in Uganda, the American South, New Delhi, India, and the Northeast of the US where he is originally from. He has taken inspiration from all the jobs he's worked over the years and the beautiful folks he's met along the way. ... more

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