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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: "Falling From Grace" / Will Dockery
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 21:44:27 +0000
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Raine Carosin wrote:
>
> Sadly, that's a part of life, but not the whole of life...  for every
>> negative, there's a positive, and in stable couplings, no matter what,
>> there's always going to be the see-saw effect, negative positive and all
>> sorts of scientific ideals the individuals cling to as they bounce from
>> one end of the spectrum of their freedom to the next...

Long time no see, hope you're doing well.

>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Falling from Grace
>>>
>>> Her eyes matched
>>> the shabby sepia hotel
>>> the waitress told us
>>> the cream had a funny smell.
>>>
>>> So we opted for black
>>> before the ride back
>>> to the city.
>>>
>>> Mallard duck
>>> mandolin
>>> county fair
>>> Ferris wheel wind
>>> blows back her hair.
>>> Falling from grace
>>> it's a long way down there.
>>>
>>> Ten years ago
>>> a man in a balloon
>>> he went up high
>>> and he fell to his doom.
>>> All the while he was yelling...
>>>
>>> It wasn't pretty.
>>>
>>> Everybody knows you've been cheating
>>> wipe that smile from your face.
>>>
>>> Everybody says I've been sober
>>> Don't cry boy, you know what you done.
>>>
>>> All I know is that
>>> I gotta turn it loose
>>> three weeks now
>>> and I'm headed for the noose.
>>> Falling from grace it's a pity.
>>>
>>> They think they're fixing
>>> the world through fear
>>> but they're out there
>>> and I'm still in here.
>>>
>>> So it goes by so fast
>>> before the ride back
>>> to the city.
>>>
>>> -Will Dockery
>>>
>>> ~
>>> Falling From Grace (& medley)
>>> by Will Dockery, Riley Yielding & Henry Conley
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/FallingFromGraceMedley

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