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In your rusted out 2 door
You've known for a while that this world doesn't always love you back no
And you want your sons to feel loved by this world so you shelter them away from the city
Them away them away from the city
You want them to feel loved by this world so you shelter them outside of Saint Helens
And show them how to just be like Hegel or Thoreau
But you know
That this world doesn't always love you back
Your sons are giving you a heart attack
Down at the Portland courthouse tonight
you were there in 1969
Watching teens get dragged by police on horses and now you can't no police forces


Outside of Saint Helens you put your life on the line
Your son loves you too much to put his life on the line
If you love him you'll let him go to Portland tonight
Little brother out the window past the Saint John's Bridge
On highway 30 passing his dads place grabbing his brother out of the window
They are going to go to the fog and the lights
Blending in with the tear gas at the courthouse tonight

Jason could not be more than 16
I met him outside the courthouse
He was puking his guts out from the tear gas we were looking for his little births we lost him in the madness
Standing behind a fence of cops
Jason told me this is why his mom took them out of the city
We found it ironic how a lot these cops live out in the boonies
We found Jason's brother his name was Casey he had bruises on his chest from rubber bullets and a smile on his face
He wore those bruises like a medal.
Casey he had bruises on his chest from rubber bullets and a smile on his face
He wore those bruises like a medal
I snapped a pic and slipped it in his pocket
Casey and Jason were life blood that night
And on some Wednesday night I had some friends over ate ice cream in the backyard and we talked about the state of the city
I told my friends I've lost my fire like Casey and Jason maybe it's cause I'm getting older and I'm not a sponge like I was at 19
Soaking up the worlds pain and injustice
Standin up to cops on horses

Tyler drinking Rainers in my backyard
He told some stories about ecologists, Olivia grabbed his hand as he told those stories
They were going to Eugene in the morning to sit in some trees you know some real hippie shit to keep the bulldozzers out of the trees
Olivia and Tyler and Casey and Jason
Their fire is blazing and I'm catching their ashes trying to start a fire of my own

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from Songs For Snow Plow Drivers, released August 23, 2017

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