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The Year of the Cow

from The Year of the Cow by Sam Russell

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can’t find piece of puzzle
sick of being frustrated
hating all our little patterns
you first loved but then felt trapped in

you’re so scared of the future
you’re so scared of the here and now
when you wonder why we are together, you don’t try
to believe in the year of the cow

when we’d try to talk about death
you’d get angry and your opinion wouldn’t defend
in desperation you can’t admit to
a sign that could tell you we could make it through the end

but your sister’s hero, your sister’s hero
was the same as my own
and I prayed for a youngest sister
to forget the one that wouldn’t come home

back to the church
that inside did replace
back to the church
with those lovers I did create
with an alter to burn
to wait for her return
back to the church

I wasn’t trying to convince you
of a deity ruling above
it’s just that toy we made up voice for
is same creature as the year we fell in love

I’m come to see you and I’d grab him
make him dance and sing to make you laugh somehow
I escaped with you, I blocked voices with his to use
in what became the year of the cow

I question each belief I hold
to make sure I’m not still just doing what I’m told
the church kept relating there’s no missionary dating
you can’t love with purpose of trying to save a soul

but your sister’s hero, your sister’s hero
wrote the hymn to what you became to me
more than just a youngest sister
by choice not by destiny

we are the church
say the voices in the head
we are the church
they say always reminding
of a death to answer to
and a heaven we could lose
without the church

every night when the towers came down
me and Sean would go to Lenny’s Lounge, hold ground
close the place with George, out on I-94
between a Day’s Inn and Denny’s, a dive bar ignored

if you went up the jukebox and played Springsteen
and the song that came on was “Bobby Jean”
George would take break, pour beer, sit at end of the bar
and sip slow while starting to stare off far

and say ”I wish I had a Bobby Jean
someone to go back to in my memory
and long to be with and long to see
and say oh how I miss my Bobby Jean”

but those that don’t exist reside with the dead
they haven’t had chance to come to life yet
they’re kept there by path blocked, both so far from reach
you say, ”I wish I had a Bobby Jean”

coincidence can be a virtue
tell us things we do not know
put more than one of them together
you got yourself a miracle

but you won’t let evidence sway
or let your world revolve around how heart is wowed
you don’t have to believe in a God for me
just believe in the year of the cow

credits

from The Year of the Cow, released October 30, 2012
Sam Russell-vocal and guitar, Michael Spaly-fiddle, backing vocal, Kate Noson-backing vocal/acoustic guitar, Allison Tulloss-backing vocal/percussion, Shelby Earl-backing vocal/percussion, James Apollo-backing vocal/percussion, Nathan Wade-backing vocal/percussion, Scott Andrew-backing vocal/percussion, John Tomlinson-accordion, Noah Strom-pump organ/piano, Johnny Sangster-Hammond organ, Barb Hunter-cello, Ken Nottingham-upright bass, Dave Forrester-percussion, Isaac Chirino-snare drum

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