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Instruction After the Fact

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lyrics

The last thing I want to do
Is file another field piece
About what it means
To raise a human being

But the fact is
Another one is gone to stay
And I’ve long since dug in
For the real reckoning
That a child, a child is always on the way

I wasn’t trained to be the killer
I was never trained at all
To game whatever could be gained
The old man’s hand
Was as straight as they came

But instruction I had to find
Every time after the fact
Forever back in the back of a bored class
Wandering wild
A child is always on the way

So for you I will take
Great pains to explain
And fall short
Another white man scared shitless
All the news will give you
Is the shooter’s aim
And the opposing sides you need to know
To decide who you should blame

No one’s ever going to try too hard
To make you see
What goes further than this
Further than thee
Our horror and beauty
Are shades of the same
That it’s never too late to go out
And stake your own claim
And a child is always on the way
Wandering wild
A child is always on the way
Further than thee

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from Scivic Rivers, released February 9, 2023

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Scivic Rivers Durham, North Carolina

Scivic Rivers is the musical nom de plume of American singer-songwriter Randy Bickford; the new self-titled album is Bickford’s seventh LP.
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