Re: "Falling From Grace" / Will Dockery

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Sadly, that's a part of life, but not the whole of life...  for every

negative, there's a positive, and in stable couplings, no matter what,
there's always going to be the see-saw effect, negative positive and all
sorts of scientific ideals the individuals cling to as they bounce from
one end of the spectrum of their freedom to the next...

Will Dockery wrote:
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Falling from Grace
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Her eyes matched
the shabby sepia hotel
the waitress told us
the cream had a funny smell.
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So we opted for black
before the ride back
to the city.
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Mallard duck
mandolin
county fair
Ferris wheel wind
blows back her hair.
Falling from grace
it's a long way down there.
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Ten years ago
a man in a balloon
he went up high
and he fell to his doom.
All the while he was yelling...
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It wasn't pretty.
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Everybody knows you've been cheating
wipe that smile from your face.
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Everybody says I've been sober
Don't cry boy, you know what you done.
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All I know is that
I gotta turn it loose
three weeks now
and I'm headed for the noose.
Falling from grace it's a pity.
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They think they're fixing
the world through fear
but they're out there
and I'm still in here.
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So it goes by so fast
before the ride back
to the city.
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-Will Dockery
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Falling From Grace (& medley)
by Will Dockery, Riley Yielding & Henry Conley
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https://archive.org/details/FallingFromGraceMedley