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Getting Bloody

from Desolation Sound by Luke Maynard

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7. Getting Bloody

When I was just a little lad,
My mother said to me:
“I’ll take you to the playground, son,
But stay where I can see.”
She parked it on a park bench
Where the gravel met the mud,
And playtime wasn’t over
Till my shirt was caked with blood.

Rusty nails and hollow logs,
Old grey wood and strangers’ dogs,
Getting bloody, [GETTING BLOODY!]
Getting bloody. [GETTING BLOODY!]
Trying not to get half killed
Made our children better skilled:
Getting bloody [GETTING BLOODY!]
Taught us all how to not get dead.

We learned to play upon the steel,
We learned upon the dirt,
We learned the strength to hang on tight
’Cause falling actually hurt,
We played with sticks and took our licks
As happy as could be;
My Mom said, “if you lose an eye,
Then don’t come crying to me!”

Rusty nails, &c.

Sure, we got some splinters from the wood,
Some red burns from the slide;
We got a little battered
But nobody ever died,
But then one day the dozers came:
I thought they were fantastic,
Until they tore the playground up
And put down molded plastic!

They told us they “believed in us.”
That clearly wasn’t true:
They don’t trust us to run and play
The way a child should do
Without their firm neurotic hand
To coddle and condemn.
Now for the sake of blessed safety
We’ll be stuck on the bench with them.

And now the playground sits unused
For everyone to see;
We stay indoors to get abused
By smartphones and T.V.,
But back behind the parking lot
I’ve found a deep ravine;
The rocks and rotten logs there
Are the best you’ve ever seen,

Rusty nails, &c.

Getting bloody [GETTING BLOODY!]
Taught us how to stay alive!

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from Desolation Sound, released June 30, 2018
All vocals & instruments by Luke Maynard
Written by Luke Maynard

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Luke Maynard Toronto, Ontario

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, old-school Canadian acoustic troubaour, and all-purpose sonic roustabout.

Loitering around the upper frets since 1996.

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