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smokestack blues (Lyric) by wilco
The stones can't hold
a blurred photograph
of nothing but stars
and a cold blurry night.
They rise into the sky
to grasp at blackness
and shake away the feel
of the billowing clouds.
The smokestacks make me think
of all the packaged pieces
and the devil's dark fingers
reaching up to tear away the rain.
Expressions on the faces
of ladies in the blues
are keeping with the timing
of the soulful summer sounds.
Stacking smoke on top of smoke
to sleep inside of chrome,
they laugh at all the colors
that don't care who they are.
Bridge:
Out here there's no tomorrow;
only an extension of today
And when the sun burns out again
the circling birds have no idea.
The smokestacks make me think
of all the packaged pieces
and the devil's dark fingers
reaching up to tear away the rain.
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