Amber, Out Back
She spent the late shift
Workin’ the bottomless pit
Afterwards I’d give her a lift,
And we’d smoke out back a bit.
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Her father left her down
In Philly one Sunday
Said he had to go underground,
to straighten up and veer away.
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Amber was an arrowhead sharpened,
From a boy's life you can’t remember.
She always knew what happened,
but I'm just a lost dream of Amber.
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Her next deal came down too short,
The sky came up a little too mean,
She thought, Dyin’s a streetlight sport,
And hard love goes down unseen.
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We would hang out back of Dawn’s,
And talk about sleepy things we feel,
The dumpsters green, like heavy yawns,
she saw through little thin ideals.
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She said, You have a lot to learn,
Like you wait all night at the station,
and that time is for a man to understand
how to swallow down his satisfaction.
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Her nervous legs didn’t like bad advice,
And her fists held were hard to hold,
Her smart mouth hated to listen,
But her black eyes always told.
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