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Oh Temi
03:40
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I will stand by u
03:54
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Give as good as u take
04:58
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I arrived in town with middle class guilt empathy and a taste for weed
Weed opened a world up to me
Poor black oppressed insightful ingenious
I learned and loved and had a crazy time
Good awful laughter tears hysteria
I got to mingle with the world of exiles off the beaten track of my tourist traps
Like steely dan sang I became a third world man
And I looked at life with my face scraping against the road
Good people out there nearly all
More moral than the flirtatious bourgeoisie
Constant and honest
And declaring only a fool trusts another man
In lands of desperation
Bunny wailer sang
“The man oppressed will seem to
Do the worst…”
But they'll also take the lonely in
Ready to rip u off and stab u in the back
But never & this is paramount
Never to humiliate u
If u are humble not inverted proud
If u are without illusions
Ur faith will be returned
When u have escaped & survived
The scrapes
In another time another place
U will see the smiling faces
White teeth from the shadows
Life ain't long for most of the world
Give as good as u take
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Circle of folk
03:25
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After the fall
The broken wing
The loss of song
The favouring of one side
The sorrow for self
Stepping down from shelves
The book without pictures
The losers and victors
Watching the angels above
Imprinting themselves on ur memory
Before they vanish forever
The cold and the fever
The preoccupation with sewers
And rats in the rank
The dry and the dank
U can no longer fly
U cannot even try
What's the matter friend?
U must lie
For the sake of saving face
For the sake of preserving God’s grace
For the sake
Of the umbilical soul
Ur skin turns white
U dress in black
U stick to facts
Less is more
The universe of numbers no longer leading to mystery
Only pragmatic certainty
U wish u could fly
But u cannot remember how or why
After the fall
©Malachi Doyle 2016
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After the fall
04:25
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Malachi Doyle Melbourne, Australia
Born in Melbourne, Australia. Has travelled and toured widely, including long stays in Fiji and the UK to develop a unique
blend of Folk, Blues, Country, Reggae and Fijian. Lyrical preoccupations of Love, Social Observation, Protest, God and Whimsy.
More recently he has moved into Expressionist Folk Poetry & Song with Mel From Melbourne and Earth To Malachi, dance parrot and the band Bait.
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