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Cattle And Cane Lyrics

Lyrics: Grant
I recall a schoolboy coming home
through fields of
cane
to a house of tin and timber
and in the sky
a rain of
falling cinders
from time to time
the waste memory-wastes
I
recall a boy in bigger pants
like everyone
just waiting for a
chance
his father's watch
he left it in the showers
from time to
time
the waste memory-wastes
I recall a bigger brighter world
a
world of books
and silent times in thought
and then the railroad
the railroad takes him home
through fields of cattle
through fields
of cane
from time to time
the waste memory-wastes
the waste
memory-wastes
further, longer, higher, older