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elegy for a farmer

from the waning light of fall by orphan factory

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lyrics

someone say a prayer for me
in the middle of these empty fields.
i can't find a place to grow,
all the dirt has turn to stone.

sing me a song, sing me a song,
it's dark tonight and i don't belong.

this dirt's too hard to work anymore.
i've been breaking bones
since the day i was born
near the church my grandaddy broke.
before he left on a halo of rope
i heard him say the Lord is a ghost.

forgive me Father, i have no hope.

sing me a song, sing me a song,
it's dark tonight and i don't belong.

someone say a prayer for me
in the middle of these empty fields.
send me to heaven, send me to hell,
i just don't think it matters anymore.
granddaddy said the Lord is ghost,
granddaddy said the Lord is ghost.

forgive me Father, i have no hope.
forgive me Father, i found me a rope.

sing me a song, sing me a song,
it's dark tonight and i don't belong.

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from the waning light of fall, track released June 19, 2012

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orphan factory Los Angeles, California

I'm from a small, rural town up in the Idaho panhandle. Much of my life has been a gamble and a kind of fistfight and I try to hold on to some semblance of faith though often I find myself too derelict to catch the offered light. Amen.

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