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Spots on the King

from 10¢ Singles by Ten Cent Poetry

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This one is about seeing a friend bound up in flecks of sickness, limitation, and dark cosmic chunks and the ache that comes from being that observer. It's about lifting each other out, while knowing that it really takes that person to make the leap.

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Spots on the King

It hurts to see you dying, it hurts to see you've cared
for a wingless plane not flying, for a legless chair
that has left you, left you standing, standing alone in line
staring at the backs of heads with wild flowers behind you.

And I'm sure if you can walk away from all that's left unsaid
The sun will pine to find your day and a roof will find your head

It hurts to see you shackled, it hurts to see you down
Wearing the crown of the king, but the spots of the clown
That spread across your shoulders, then across your mighty throne
Your holy flame reduced to smolders, an echo as your home

And I'm sure if you can walk away from all that's left unsaid
The sun will pine to find your day and a roof will find your head

So take care my one time lover, be brave my longtime friends
I'll teach you how to find your way then you'll have to remind me again.
How to navigate through terror, twists turns and bends and
have faith that good beginnings sprout from the darkest of ends

Ten Cent Poetry
Asheville, NC
© 2012

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from 10¢ Singles, released July 4, 2012
Written, recorded, performer by Chelsea Lynn La Bate. 10¢ Studios.

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Ten Cent Poetry Asheville, North Carolina

Chelsea La Bate is a poet, composer, songwriter, performer, author and radio host. She likes sparkly things. She constructs songs with colored markers, a notebook, a mountain dulcimer, a banjo and a guitar.

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