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Buried Child

from Get It On by Gentleman Loser

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I was gonna run last night
I was gonna run and keep on running
I drove all night
Clear to the Iowa border
Old man's tool box sitting right on the seat beside me
It never stopped raining the whole time
It never stopped once
I could see myself in the windshield
My face, my eyes
I studied my face
I studied everything about it
As though I was looking at another man
As though I could see his whole race behind him
Like a mummy's face
Like I saw him dead and alive in the same breath
In the windshield I watched debris
Frozen in time
Every breath marked him, marked him forever, without him knowing
And then his face changed
His face became his father's face
Same bones, same eyes, same nose, same breath
And his father's face changed to his grandfather's face
And it went on like that, changing
Clear back on to faces I've never seen before, but still recognize
Still recognized the bones, the eyes, the mouth...
I followed my family clear into Iowa
Every last one of them
Straight into the corn belt
Straight as far as they would take me
Then it all dissolved
Everything dissolved

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from Get It On, released January 29, 2010

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