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Hospital Blues

from How We Left the Nest by Broken Bird Call

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I hate the way you smell
and I hate your sickly light.
and I'll hate the news you tell me
Don't matter if it's wrong or if it's right.

Watched a good man pass away
Watched another hair turn grey
Must've aged five years that day
Another child weeps.....alone

Hallways filling up with the sick
The doctors are all speaking in tongues
Another pain filled bathroom trip
Moans the patient from Room 21

You wanna sing a song to make them well
gotta cry out screaming loud as hell
Another child born neither pauper or fool
Sitting quietly humming the Hospital Blues

Life support is beeping
Guess that means I'm still breathing
Noone's yelling flat line.
I guess that means I'm still alive

I think it may be time to leave
Don't be bereft, I've settled all my debts
Time to take that long bony hand
spent my last grain of sand on a bet where I had losing odds.

Wanna sing a song to make them well?
Gotta cry out screaming loud as hell
Another child born neither pauper or fool
Sitting quietly humming the Hospital Blues.

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from How We Left the Nest, released October 1, 2013

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Broken Bird Call Hammond, Louisiana

Started by Troy Bennett in early 2013 as a solo venture in the vein of an acoustic project started with Daniel Bankston (The Great Phonograph Fires, Withering Light) in late 2010. All recording and mixing was done by Nick Feduccia. All instruments and arrangements done by myself except for the flugelhorn performed by Mr. Lacy Blackledge. Enjoy.

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