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A Song About Wolves

from Homage To Catalonia by Jim Powell

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lyrics

Make haste mortal peasant,
For the dreams of death come awake,
And walking haunts the homes
Where hidden sleep your children.

The fear of starvation
Has become the torment
Of plenty. The wagons, carts,
Now spew the violent fumes,

The combustion of the earth’s blood,
The angry chatter fouling lungs
And melting stone. Vukojebinje
Becomes our backyards.

The green fields and parks
Stripped, raped and poisoned,
The water gone, the soil dead.
The wolves, sated with flesh,

Making dens in backseats
Of cars abandoned, rusted through.
Nearby, bodies uneaten,
Rotting, then bleached by the sun,

Where slowly they become
Black blood of the earth.
Who will pump the blood
Eons from now and wonder

What life was lost and why?
Will the excess be apparent?
Will the scars have healed?
Or will wolves still pace

And mate and sleep and howl
And devour our carrion.
Our legacy, the bare rock
Over the green and pleasant land

We thought was Jerusalem.
Make haste mortal peasant,
For the dreams of death come awake.

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from Homage To Catalonia, released November 3, 2023

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Jim Powell Boulder Creek, California

I am a songwriter & guitarist working out of my home studio in beautiful Boulder Creek, California. My arrangements use a mix of voice, acoustic and electric guitars, bass and drums, along with the occasional mandolin, bouzouki, or keyboard part.

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