Keep on Livin'

from Cowboy by Axel Carrington

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It’s the hope that kills you,
Transcribed in your tomes,
Left to be known, wherever I roam.
It lives every time I see your face,
But hope’s not a home, hope’s just a trace.

That you leave to the Earth,
Bury in your dirt,
Just for one to uncover, it’s held in your hurt,
You say “maybe your soil does not grow,
A hope’s hard to sew, when you want the wild Doe.”

It’s the hope that kills you,
Searches wide in your songs,
Stretches far in these trills, keeps the longing, longing long.
& does one yearn to just keep riding on?
When the stirrups break & bust, when the Doe leaves her dust.

When the bottle’s a lone scout,
& the searching is a shout,
Does the riding stave off, the darkness & the drought?
You say “perhaps you should remove all doubt,
How many paces, partner? Before you face & find out?”

“You’ve been howling at the moon again,
In this grotesque glen,
Leave your load light of this lullaby,
The sun is rising high.

You don’t have to hold,
Onto these such things,
You can keep riding, Cowboy.

You don’t have to hold,
Onto these such things,
You can keep riding, Cowboy,
You can keep on living.”

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from Cowboy, released September 29, 2023

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Axel Carrington Perth, Australia

Perth based guitarist, keeping busy with writing songs about bins and bowls clubs.

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