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Prophet's Yesterday

from A Bit of Change by Edward St Moritz

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The words of the prophets shove broken bottles into the faces of power. And what happens is all too often the fate of Jamal Kashoggi. These are my impressions of the collapse of the American Dream’s star into a blackhole nightmare. No need to forecast – this is happening now.

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Prophet’s Yesterday

Quarter after midnight I caught myself and
Forced a broken bottle
Through the eyes of the next three minutes
Disfigured time For the next hearse home
I took out the panthers
To piss on the chrome of the sleeping rich

It was all I could do With nothing to say
No time like no time like no time like A prophet’s yesterday

the swirl in my gut And my hurricane heart
Dream of the big emptyTear reason apart in wet ribbons
There’s a psychopath gouging Out the social contract
Where white and black Means no going back to his good old days

It was all I could do With something to say
No time like no time like no time like A prophet’s yesterday

the slouching beast the hydra hate
take the helm of the shithole of state oh it’s foundering fast
white wheel house stained with blood and fear anybody other don’t belong there
(they’re not like us and they don’t like us)

fires of doubters burn the west dry
Our fires of love leave the moon too high
The shadow of the valley churns the middle of the sea
It’s come for you, it’s come for me

The water is rising, my sweet young things
High water dark and astonishing
You’ll use your plastic to slice your wrist
Till your bible falls from your cold, dead fist

This is all I can do With too much to say
This time is like a Prophet’s yesterday

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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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