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When A White Dove Dies

from Desolation Sound by Luke Maynard

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3. When A White Dove Dies

When a white dove dies
In a tinsel nest off the tractor road,
It’s a heavy load on the local crows
When a white dove dies

When a white ship flies
From a crowded port to an unknown shore,
It’s a hardship for those who live indoors
When the white ship flies.

In your Sunday tie and your Sunday dress
As you’re wonderin’ why on this day of rest
The whole red Earth is wrong,
And a child of five rages in your chest
And she beats at the cage of your Sunday best,
And you know she’s locked behind the bars of a song.

When the white moon rises and bathes your face
With the light of shame,
All light is not to blame:
there are rays of Grace blazing just the same.

And the white stars trying to pierce the night with their diamond-tipped gaze,
In the falling light they will find their way
When a white dove dies.

And a woman lies
On the railroad ties
And she counts the stars ’til she’s in the skies
And she won’t come down,
And a child of five
Drowning in her eyes
Tries to smash the glass till her prison cries,
But she won’t break down,

If there’s one white lie
In this carousel of a one-horse town,
It’s that every horse keeps a steady course
As it courses ’round.
But there are so few lights in these endless nights, and so few arrive,
And every soul alive is a child of five when a white dove dies.

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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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