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A Bit of Change

from A Bit of Change by Edward St Moritz

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One of my drivers described a relative as someone who “was looking for his inner self and fell out of his body”. Charlie is a real person, a different individual. I know what life on the street can be like, I put the two together. I haven’t seen Charlie lately. I hope he’s OK. This is the title track.

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A bit of change

Charlie lives in shadows he’s been sleeping by a wall
if you don’t look too hard you won’t see him at all
smells like dying shrimp coughs out a lump or two
talks like his throat was busted back in ‘62
He used to be so sober he used to be so clean
he wore the shoes the workers wear spinning the machine
He lost it, all his reasons for a reasonable life
his work and god and children and his all too faithful wife

Looking for his inner self he fell out of his body
an epic epidemic of rage-panicked flight
faking his floundering into a mortgaged future...

Chorus
but Future will not care
Past forgot her tears
and Present’s begging for a bit of change

He sits down on the curb pukes out a chicken pie
wipes a sleeve across his face stares into the sky
poor choices some might say poverty of choice say more
while drink, stink, and government ink
Bolt damn near every door

Losing his inner self he falls out of his body
an epic epidemic of rage-panicked flight
making his younger years into imagined futures...
but Future will not care Past forgot her tears
and Present’s begging for a bit of change

Charlie lived in shadows they found him by a wall
if you didn’t look too hard you saw nothing at all
Call it fate or choice he was alone no one wept
a welfare ticket bought his grave nothing, nothing left.

Looking for his inner self he fell out of his body
an epic epidemic of rage-panicked flight
crashed in a drunken haze pissed up the future
but Future will not care Past forgot her tears
and Present’s begging for a bit of change
[repeat chorus]
...begging for a bit of change...for a bit of change

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from A Bit of Change, released April 30, 2020

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Edward St Moritz Barrie, Ontario

Ed lives in Collingwood Ontario.

He and Don Bray produced his first CD of original songs Small Things Shining Bright and has just completed a second project A Bit of Change with Ray Dillard.

Why a darkside navigator?
“I am responsible for the directions I take in those gray territories. I do go into depression, but I also know how to sail through it. My songs are the maps of experience there.” ... more

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