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MARKER [FOR STEVEN]

from VIOLENCE (2022) by Joey Carbo

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There ain’t no way and no need to explain
About the cold ice water that hit in my vein.
Call it a marker or call it a sign
But it’s the last one we’ll get and they mean it this time.
I ain’t going away.

If one is the number and sum of your parts
And blood the only content of the heart
Then I can see what they mean,
This blank is the only thing left so we dream.

But I ain’t going away.

I told them to kiss me, I told them goodbye.
She showed me a cigarette burn and a smile.
Said, call it a marker or call it a sign
But it’s the last one we’ll get and they mean it this time.
And I ain’t going away.
No, I ain’t going away.

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from VIOLENCE (2022), released January 28, 2022

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Joey Carbo's solo work as well as the albums he made with both his bands -
"Yes, it's dark. But Carbo isn't intending to scare folks away from darkness, I don't think he ever is -- he's no stranger to writing songs about hopelessness and anger. He's done it with precision here, communicating specific turns of emotion, sans generalization." -C.M. Hall ... more

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