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Keepsake
Crime and the City Solution

I have seen the fingers of the earth reach around

Raze great cities to the ground

Seen those cities built gain

They rose up into the sky

Watched them dissolve before my eyes

Watched buds bloom and burst forth

Fold up into the arms of the night

And return with first light


I have cursed you and all your kin

Felt the distance grow within

I have known your presence come to move me

It caught me by surprise

I knew there and then that you were wise

And all this while I was haunted by your eyes


Here is the keepsake

It will keep safe


I have cheated out of sight and sound

To walk again the barren ground

I have scratched the same soil

And put my back into the toil

Cut through the undergrowth and grass

Hammered out a home, a house

This I keep aside for you

Keep alive inside of you


Here is the keepsake

It will keep safe


I have seen the darkest storm

Rip through the tall trees

And the life that lay within

The earth laid bare, washed clean


Startled cats venture out

Shake the water from their backs

All is new now

All is new

And I feel here

That all is well with you

I have seen the sleeping seedling

Rise up out of the earth’s beating heart

Watched the sunlight shiver, across the creeks swift flight

I have seen the earth stir

And strike out the sun

I have seen the earth at peace

And as one


Here is the keepsake

It will keep safe


You and I suspended between

With rain for the dirt

Of a hundred years

And you whisper to me

Of sleep for the dreams of a hundred more

I have seen in you all this and more

All this and more

All this and more


Here is the keepsake

It will keep safe


Sleep for the dreams of a hundred years

Here is the keepsake

It will keep safe


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