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Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Grand Dark Feeling of Emptiness
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[Verse 1]
Well, I felt like I was born today
So I took it upon me to go away
To gather my thoughts and go away
To where I could be used by somebody
[Verse 2]
Over the hill, like always you know
Where Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe
They beat and broke me hard and slow
To prove I was nobody
[Verse 3]
And no one I was and so remained
Knocked out in a hut, no mother, no name
And filled up my heart with one in the same
That grand dark feeling of emptiness
[Verse 4]
And was it a friend that turned me loose?
Or was it a girl come to baste my goose?
Or was it my great God who laid on His finger
And started my clock anew?
[Verse 5]
I know it was rain, I know it was gunning
It was point break and buckle and singing and cunning
That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running
And I never looked back from then on
[Verse 6]
I'm learning bit by bit
About the make and model shit
Muddy bowl, I live in it
And all the mucks that tire us
[Verse 7]
I'm a-feared if I don't have
A piglet, lamb or little calf
I'll chop my humanness in half
And be as a worm or virus
[Verse 8]
Kids I've had and they are sung
Upon folks ears, my babes are hung
Rhythmically they live among
And grow but don't get old
[Verse 9]
Not in a box, not in a void
Not if their voice is never heard
Nor if no one repeats the word
But if their tune is told
[Verse 10]
Then we can age and fall away
To meet again some golden day
Fill it in our happy way
In starlight and in gold
Written by: Joseph Will Oldham

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