The Ballad Of The Broken Idealist

from I Call The Living by Samuel Lockridge

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I’d give you my heart, but it’s rusty
From being left out in the rain.
I’d give it a home and a name
If I understood the point of this game.

You see, I’ve got this thing called “idealism.”
It’s not a big deal, but it hurts.
The doctor gave me some booze for the pain
And said, “you’ve got to die of something someday.”

O, but my soul, it cries out to the Earth every night
‘Til morning light.
I’ve got a cynical mind but a mystical heart.
All these “-isms,” they tear me apart.

What good is a branch with no fruit?
What hath all our toil produced?
One golden mountain surrounded by valleys of ash!
Why not separate the wheat from the chaff?

If capital “T” truth exists,
Is this the best of all possible worlds?
It’s sure not the one I had in mind,
But uncertainty is less brutal with good wine.

O, yes my soul, it cries out to the Earth every night
‘Til morning light.
Though it kills me, still I must believe!

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from I Call The Living, released October 20, 2014
David Mahler: Piano
Patrick Rush: Cello
Mason Self: Drums

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Samuel Lockridge is a singer-songwriter, producer, sound designer, and theatre artist based in Lexington, Kentucky.

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