You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are

from Western Symphony by Tar & Flowers

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Up the river
Is the beginner
Who weighs the heart
Against the silver
Against the gold
‘Gainst the light and dark.

And he makes of what he holds
And sells it to the lame.
And he writes of every soul
Where they left and where they came
And where they lie - it’s never the same.

In the valley
There is a tally
Of the living and the dead.
They give them horses
For unknown forces
That come to pay their debt.

To the sky they start to cry
At what’s done in His name.
And they lay every which way
Pointing fingers to lay the blame -
Upon the kings, upon the graves.

A creeping gunman
Up to something
Takes one more name.
The dust it settles
On a million metals
Worn by the sons of Kane.

And Adam’s kin takes them in
And counts his many scars
And he loans the skin and bones
To a drunk at the end of the bar,
“You don’t know how lucky you are.”

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from Western Symphony, released December 3, 2021

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