So Long Marky

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So Long Marky Words and Music by Mark Neihart © 2013 Dancing Deer, llc So long Marky, I hate to see you run away but keep walking Don’t slow down, cause you need a place to hide Don’t turn around, cause you feel so bad inside Keep walking, Marky History, has changed us The grinding will of life has rearranged us Estranged us, from the friends we use to be Deranged us, by a truth we cannot see So Keep Walking Walking, Marky, all that life has come to give You tossed it back refused to live Younger, dreams have broken Edgy shards of promises unspoken The token of the possibility The memory of what our lives were supposed to be So keep walking Hold on, to that history To cut the chord would leave us with a mystery The question, of who really are we now And destruction of all our sacred cows So keep walking Walking, Marky, all that life has come to give You tossed it back refused to live All my great intentions were tied to you my friend All my love and happiness realized a bitter end The love I had for humanity has been finally overcome By the weariness that life demands Pay the toll and then move on You were what sustained me The clinging to identity You were who became me Swirling in our misery You have never seen me Just the shades of who you are I was always here for you But now I’m leaving you to starve Keep walking, Marky Don’t turn around for anything Keep Walking, Marky There’s nothing left for me to bring

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