Back to Norfolk

from The Heavy Weight and the Lift by Buck AE Down

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(Time is escaping me - I keep escaping me always)
I went back to Norfolk
But my city was gone
I went back to Norfolk
But my city was gone.
i went to wage holy war in Norfolk
But my city was gone
Clothed in righteous armor back to Norfolk
But my city was gone
The Hague River swallows Mowbray arch
In Norfolk
Sinking back into the marsh that it sprang from
Back in Norfolk
in this time line - the Monitor and Merrimac sit at the bottom of the Elizabeth River
In Norfolk
As prehistoric sharks feast on the bones of dead
Confederate soldiers
In Norfolk
i went back to Cogan’s
But my memory’s gone
They ripped out the stage from Cogan’s
and now the rock n’ roll is gone
The telephone poles still shot through with rusting nails
In Norfolk
The street signs read like someone else’s mail
In Norfolk
The University has swallowed all our monuments along Hampton Blvd.
Now my city is gone
Like General Sherman’s drunken march to sea
And now my city is gone.
I went back to Norfolk
My city was gone
I went back to Norfolk
But my city was gone
I went back to Norfolk
My city was gone
But everything was still there.

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from The Heavy Weight and the Lift, track released August 8, 2019

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