Name: Rosie's Last Flight
Duration: P00H04M13S
Description: I wrote this one about a part in Jack Kerouac's book, Dharma Bums. The part where Jack is watching Cody's girlfriend while he's away due to her having schizophrenic like behaviors, and while Jack is asleep she throws herself off the roof.

Rosie's Last Flight

from City Streets by Bacon & Beer

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I wrote this one about a part in Jack Kerouac's book, Dharma Bums. The part where Jack is watching Cody's girlfriend while he's away due to her having schizophrenic like behaviors, and while Jack is asleep she throws herself off the roof.

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Solitude upon a park bench
He gazes up at the clouds
Spending all his time in the sky
It's hard to keep his feet on the ground
Maybe he should stop asking why
And start to try to find out how
The door will open when he twists the knob
But in the room he's still not allowed

Old man come and sit down next to him
And say "hey Jim, why the disguise?
You put on as if you don't give a damn
To wait like I am, it's all a pack of lies
I see it slowly eating up at your soul
You ain't quite been whole I see it in your eyes
You ain't wrong to sit and wait like you do
Let it come find you,
Until then the sun will still rise...

I picked up my head
Because I fell down again
I had too many last night
Can't seem to tell myself when
"Oh we're done for" she cried
"They're gonna come for us all
It's all my fault, can't you see
Won't you just let me fall"
Calm your nerves crazy child
Don't you see you are wrong
It doesn't matter to me
It's all lines from the same song
But she climbed to the roof
In the dead of the night
They came as fast as they could
But Rosie took her last flight

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from City Streets, released January 4, 2014

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