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From the album "Brown Town" (2013)

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CENTURIES OF SHAME

It's finally time to lose that ugly name,
and along with it, the centuries of shame
that ancestors had brought from where they came.
Now you're no longer one of them,
and nevermore the same.

Let no one ever tell you that you'd lied,
in light of all the comforts you'd denied,
as you'd struggled just to reach a point of pride
in spite of all the shame
that you'd every right to hide.

Your story'd make a novel or a play
that wouldn't do it justice, either way,
as your whole life has been led as though to say,
"Keep your centuries of shame;
now watch me go away."

© 2013 Steve Fitch

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from My Velvet Rut: Another Compilation of Stuff by Me, released March 20, 2014
Music, lyrics & recording © 2012 Steve Fitch; published by My Music by Me Muisic (BMI).

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