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This Is A Community

from Between The Hangman And The Halo by Anthony Ruptak

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In the evenings I get home and pour out the vodka

Pour out the sheep's blood

Go out to the front porch and sit on a chair

That grows from the ground

Bark back at the white dog chained

up to the mailbox, up to the mailbox

My strings stay silent but my thought dreams are loud




The strength isn't in me, my boots are still on

Loose at the laces

I never get tired at all cause I never rest

I never rest

I've lost all my old friends to blue bottle flies

and blue summer months

Eating holes in my head, holes in my head




And the chemical raindrops all sneak by the aeroplanes

Born in the jet waves

And fall to the dirt to feed all of the weeds

All of the weeds

And if we get lucky the wind never blows

From the west where the oil glows

Lit by little gold bulbs, the refinery knows its place

Inside our community




I didn't know that the airplanes had headlights

Till I moved here

To lose control is just like

Trading up your roots for a stupid mistake

And once they're unearthed and you see them

Bleeding tiny droplets of the goodness you earned

Everything stops and the clock's hands hold still

To wait for the seeds that you dropped before you gave up




Oh won't you come visit us in the glorious land of the eighteen-wheeler

I've got a lot of love to give but it hides

Underneath my patience

We can walk to the liquor store where the customers

all use shopping carts

Stay us till cicadas drone and the sun yells "I'm home"

That fucker hates us

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from Between The Hangman And The Halo, released January 31, 2015

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Anthony Ruptak Denver, Colorado

Anthony Ruptak is a Colorado-based musician who writes and performs his original work with a simple mission: to explore the effects of the human condition. His music ranges from vulnerable acoustic performances to raucous and maximalist multi-instrumental experiences, with his intricate lyrics always at the forefront. Ruptak has been performing in Denver for over 15 years. ... more

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