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Hole in the Earth

from Hummingbird by Sticks Calliope

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Jim was a believer in modern medicine, so when his gut doubled over he knew where he should go. The Doc said, Jim I cannot do a thing for what you got, I wish you’d come and seen me a year ago. And I don’t know if you found peace with God, or if you figure he’s even out there looking for you, but I’d bet my PhD, barring a miracle or three, you’re gonna figure it out real soon.
Jim was testing fighter planes, but he didn’t say a word when he got back to the base, just stayed up looking at the gleam of machines that he’d flown in between the sound barrier and the edges of space. Thought I aint ever had the child that I thought that I would raise into a man that I aint never yet been. I was looking fifty years ahead, suddenly now back’s the only way I can see.
If I could fly to the moon, if I could do what the doctor cannot do, if I could get there first. If I could get so big they’d see my chariot swing across the sky, shining bright as it burnt.
But I’m gonna be a big boy in a big hole in the earth.
7,000 feet in the air up there, where the only sound you hear is your breath. 500 miles an hour, someone calls you from the tower, saying where you think you’re going kid. Hanging on a thread between earth and someone’s heaven the first time it occurred to him. I can see the ends of the earth from the perch where my cancer ridden body sits.
If I could fly to the moon, if I could do what the doctor cannot do, if I could get there first. If I could get so big, they’d see my chariot swing across the sky, shining bright as it burnt.
Yeah, I’m gonna make a big boy in a big hole in the earth. How they gonna measure me now.

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from Hummingbird, released September 3, 2012

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