Detroit

by Tom Casey

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Driving fast
Street lines are fading
First hours are passing
Morning

She lost control
Spun out of the street
Bleeding from her knees
Went off running

And somewhere else
An old man sleeps
He's been pissed off about the
trouble brewing in the streets

They jacked up his car
And called him rough names
He hates this town
They're all the same

And she got lost
Stumbling down the street
The dark windows, locked houses,
and numb feet

And she called out for help
Brain startin to swell
Detroit was sleeping
Yea, she was sleeping so well

And he woke up
Heard a rapping on his door
Must be those crooks, he said
Guess they came back for some more
And he grabbed his gun
Swung open the door
And she got hit
Fallen on his porch

Now an old man sits
In a crowded cell
His days are many
His mind is a Hell

And does he write that letter
to the teenager's sister?
About his bleeding heart
how he wished he had missed her?

Does he know inside
that some things just got wrong?
And will he serve his time
singing old sorrowful songs?

Thinkin about that night
In his dark cell
How Detroit was sleeping
Yea, she was sleeping so well.

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released September 14, 2016
Written by Tom Casey

Drums and timpani - Dan Demyanovich

Mixed and mastered by Adam Vaccarrelli

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