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Elm City Ballad

from Broken Bone Ballads by Ceschi

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lyrics

Elm City Ballad
(for the city of New Haven & all of my friends & family here & to those locked up in Whalley Ave. across the street)

4 am,
driving through the streets of New Haven again.
Baby faced
crack corner kids
working grave yard shifts
with the
diner waitresses.
Everybody trying to break bread.

I'm every lung that's breathing in this filthy city waste,
I'm trick turning street walker,
Mary full of grace,
undocumented worker wage slave,
I'm needle pierced vein,
I am black rose on Grandmother's grave.

We'll find our way the old men said in AA.
They told us faith in God would take the pain away,
but God is nowhere to be found in this place.
We're only half awake
waiting to be served slop and corn cake by inmates.


Love me city, till I'm gray
Elm city love me safe

Love me city, till I'm gray
Love me till I am erased

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from Broken Bone Ballads, released April 7, 2015
Melodica by Max Heath
Bass by Enver Hampton

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