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Detroit

from Certain Truths by Sweet Ghosts

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There's a crazy old homeless woman
With more fingers than teeth
She's got headphones but no radio
Doing a raindance down this forgotten street
She points a finger at me and says "Boy,
I've got my good eye on you"
Then she raise it up to heaven, singing
"Hallelujah, the lord does too."

There's a place called the Old Miami
Down on the Cass Corridor
All the veterans bellying up to the bar
Telling jokes they've all heard before
Now Dan's a big man, but not terribly tall
And he smiles like it's all he's got
He's had the Miami since '79,
Now they want it for a parking lot

He puts a hand on me and says "Boy,
Before I was old enough to drink
I was watching boys die in the jungle
Down in the trenches where you just sink
Into the mud
Covered in the blood of somebody's son

The old Packard plant stands in ruins
Unused since '56
Thousands of windows shattered out by the vandals
That keep setting fire to it's bricks
The streets are eerily empty
For a day with such welcoming skies
Half of the towers that shadow this city
Are as vacant as a junkie's eyes

She points a finger at me and says "Boy,
I've got my good eye on you"
Then she raise it up to heaven, singing
"Hallelujah, the lord does too."

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from Certain Truths, track released April 19, 2014

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Tucson, AZ based Sweet Ghosts is a collaboration between Ryan Alfred and Katherine Byrnes.

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