Untitled - Campbell University

and the psycho-iatrists they send you to,
and the dope they give you,
all of them busybodies would tell me that I’m wrong,
that the voices I hear ain’t nothing more than
some imbalance of chemicals in my brain,
but I know when the wind is more than wind,
when the ocean speaks in God’s voice, and
it’s often times in the cool of night,
I hear, like little Samuel must’ve heard,
a voice, not my own --
but then he would come and bring to me
those rabbits he had shot,
and one day I just got tired of skinning and cleaning,
and I said, Hadley, time for me to move on,
Ma and Pa are dead,
and there’s bound to be more for me than playing housekeeper for you
when all you want to do is chase after some married woman
and waste your money on that boy you’re not even sure is yours.
And that’s when I took off and found myself a job at the cigarette factory,
and took up smoking.
Oh, I knew it weren’t right, that and the dancing,
mighty fine time we’d have after we’d closed up the shop
for the night, I was young and sin was in my blood,
that’s where I met Andy,
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