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The Road

I grew up on my family farm
Hell, I got my first kiss in that old red barn
Though we always had to struggle just to get by
I thought I’d always have my pride
My old man worked these fields ‘til his hands bled
Just like his old man’s old man did
And that’s the life I had planned for my kids
But something changed inside
Just a ways
On down the road

About a hundred and fifty years ago,
My old great grand dad
Took this plot from some heathen Indians
He had to murder with his own two hands
And I’ll be damned if I let some suit from the bank
Push us off of this piece of land
I’d rather see it all burn than turn around
And run with my tail between my tail my legs
Just a ways
On down the road

After the crops dried up and the livestock died
I got a stack of colored letters from the bank a foot high
I grew sicker inside as the day drew nigh
Where I couldn’t even look my family in their eyes
Well, I don’t know but I’ve been told
That the world out there will devour you whole
And leave you screaming and dying on the side of the road
Like you weren’t even human and didn’t have a soul
Just a ways
On down the road

So I turned my back to the rising sun
And I steadied my hand and I loaded my gun
I couldn’t trust my wife
She was the very first one
Her very last words were “What have you done?”
And I made my way on down the hall
The cousins and the kids
I fuckin’ shot them all
I left the kitchen covered in kerosene
I watched burn and I didn’t even blink

I stood there screaming in the morning air
The smoke in the breeze blowing through my hair
Everything in my life that I held dear
I left them in a pile burning way back down the road

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from PROJECT JELLYFISH: stories and songs volume1., released October 10, 2011

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MARIA FANTASMA IS THE NAME OF MY MUSE. MY NAME IS RYAN. I LIVE TO MAKE MUSIC AND I HOPE YOU LIVE TO HEAR IT. HOPEFULLY YOU'LL SEE MORE OF ME... I LIKE TO BULLSHIT, SO HIT ME UP ON FACEBOOK.

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