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The Don Quixote Of The Suburbs, Mariner Of Modernity

from I Call The Living by Samuel Lockridge

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I have dressed for adventure every day of my life,
My tin helm on my head and wooden sword at my side.
I went running half-naked through the neighbors’ front yard,
And I still don’t understand what manmade borders are.

I remember the song Kentucky taught me to sing
Before the coal and gas men took Kentucky away from me.

I am I, the Don Quixote of the suburbs!
I call the living, I mourn the dead.
Cause the talking heads on the TV
Told me freedom isn’t free,
And I said, “hell, it used to be!”
But not in this economy.
So if the market’s our new king,
I’m gonna let freedom ring
When I run out of words to sing.

Like a doctor with no sick and dying to save,
Like a soldier with no noble war to be waged,
All the world-weary wait for their lives to begin
While the Earth, ever onward, continues to spin.

But I remember the shiver I felt in my spine
Before I spent all my money on California wine.

So I’ll stumble blind down to the harbor
Where I keep all my escapes.
I’ll leave the bottle where I found it
And brave the white squall and the waves,
In a sailboat called “Lonesome,”
Across a sea called “Redemption,”
Bound for a land of milk and honey,
Where I’ll leave that sailboat at the shore
Cause I won’t need it anymore.

I am I, the mariner of modernity,
What stranger tides are there than these?

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from I Call The Living, released October 20, 2014

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

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