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The Fool

from Northern Lights EP by Ian Miles

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How many die
Without ever knowing a place
Beyond the distances they know
To never see an ocean
Is to be adrift an endless dune!
If the poor fool may never find rest,
Let the world cry with the rain!

How sad:
The lack of debt we find
In the efforts of the clown?
He does not owe us the smile.
But still he parades around the square
Behind his charade of colored balloons
He attempts his painted smile!

Last night it was an aluminum mill,
As workers punched out on the clock
And the last vat of metal
was cured after the bell.
Now it’s silent like a bone.
All of these union men
now pace their own kitchens
With the virile pride of eunuchs.
They hang their heads so low
In the shadows they’ve always known

I heard the clarion call
And danced a coroner’s waltz!
The tune of the promenade,
Was dry and slow like a drum.
Signed sincerely,
The fool

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from Northern Lights EP, released March 17, 2010

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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