Time Traveling Blues

from Novella by Fugitive & the Vagabond

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That woman’s a general, you know

She spreads cold war propaganda around town

If you see her, don’t make eye contact

She’ll only try to stare you down

She’s as fierce as she looks

Boy don’t go follow the papers, or read your history books

She’s a class above the rest, she’s always well dressed

She’s the woman in red, she’s the Devil

Robin the Archer waged bets with lonesome men.

“I bet I can shoot an apple off her head”

“William won’t you tell me if I’m kidding”

“Maybe that damsel is better off dead?”

He seemed to have friends in high places

But in truth, they were living down below

He raised up his bow and let the string go

Robin the Archer, he left a rich man

Like clockwork, Alex wandered the streets

Every stranger he tips his hat and greets

He thought of himself a classical man

Beethoven was a sadist and a friend

He cried out as he sung in the rain

I don’t get how there’s sadness in pain

The feeling of feeling has got me feeling so appealing

Don’t stop the music from playing

Edgar Allan Poe was a timetraveler

He tried to be an instrumental man

He was there when Abe Lincoln made Commerce

He was there when Jack the Ripper got his thirst

He tried to tell time, but time wouldn’t listen

It always had a way of pushing back

In a moment of persistence and only God as his witness

He wrote a book called ‘Twelve Minor Prophets’.

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from Novella, released November 12, 2016

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