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Tiny Ghost

from Revival by American Sinner

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Tiny Ghost (S. Sinner)
Sonja where're you going with that baby in your arms?19
I see your thoughts on suicide, I see your thoughts on harm
Sonja what're you doing lay your baby by the road
The crying it won't ever stop, the blanket won't stop the cold

I'm sinking down deeper now, slip through the drain of this cell
Its not for my escaping but for sorrow that I'm so small
My thoughts go back I hear the cars drive by I hear them through the bars outside
I swear the wind it whispered my name I swear it mimicked a cry

Never was she convicted cause, she never made it to her trial
They found her in the Roane county jail where quietly she died
Whether she ceased to eat or her sugar dropped20, no one was too surprised
Some they say they seen a tiny ghost down by the highway side

I try to think you thought that I'd like Moses be found afloat
You and I God's children left helpless beside of the road

footnotes
19 This song was about the death of an infant in Roane County, TN. At the time, I was working as a social worker in the next county over and occasionally covered for the workers there. Because it involved a poor unattractive family, it never made national news. I could not actually find any articles as of 2014, though I admittedly can not recall the last name of the family.

20‘sugar’ is another name for diabetes mellitus in some parts of the U.S.

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from Revival, released January 1, 2006

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American Sinner is a rock n' roll stiletto switchblade dance along the edge of a knife that opens up for stabbing. They are not your run-of-the-mill musical tricksters in harlequin unitards holding bouquets of flowers behind their backs. No!...they got it all -manliness like Bowie and femininity like Tina Turner. They got it all so when these boys are randy to rock, you better let 'em. ... more

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