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I Live in a Dream of a Country

from Poetry Collection - 01 by Cody Weber

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I LIVE IN A DREAM OF A COUNTRY

I live in a dream of a country

I live in the valley of stars

It's better when you take the back seat

and blend in with the rest of the cars

I should get a good job and a faithful wife

I should go back to school and make my parents proud

I should chase a black car for the rest of my life

and choke on the fumes from its toxic cloud

It's like I'm only on this earth to play a roll

Like the moment of my birth was nothing small

Like it's any different from a funeral

Deliberately illiterate

Consider it, a bathroom stall

Because I live in a dream of a country

and we piss on the concept of truth

An abyss where nothing is new

and nobody's free

not even our youth

Because there's cops at school, and the adults are nervous

from the impending thought of the next disaster

Guns are easy to get and our cinema's violent

and kids these days just grow up faster

It's a good message sent to the American young

You don't step out of line because they're always among us



I was arrested once as a kid myself

in this dream of a country

bent on self-fulfilling prophecy

Where you can't pay your fines

but they say you're still free

Until you're put on probation for a year...like me

And the funny thing that I can never seem to wrap my head around

is the thought the school had planned this out

to teach the rest to settle down

They could have just arrested me before I even went to class

Instead they chose that around 3,

They would arrest me in the nearby grass

I live in a dream of a country

I live in the valley of stars

It's better when you take the back seat

To be the last on a cop's radar.

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from Poetry Collection - 01, released February 7, 2012
Cody Weber

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