Anaïs Mitchell
Orion
you were dead when they found youon the floor of your apartmentyou were dead, and your drum setstood there shining in the darkshining like stage lightsshining like your eyesshining like orion in the night you were small time back in austinwhere the drummers are all pooryou were rocking out this dive barthere were bottles on the floorand a couple lonely peopleand the bartender and iremembered what it is to be alive chorushey, orion, he’s fallingcatch him if you canhey, orion, he’s callingamen, amen, amen were you dreaming of the big timewhen you fell down all alone?could you see the velvet curtainand the silver microphone?Letras de cancionescould you hear your own heart beating?did you hear it getting slow?could you hear your own heartplaying rock & roll? chorusgram parsons in a hotelbuddy holly on a planeand you, in your apartmentwith your drum set shiningshining like stage lightsshining like your eyesshining like orion in the night chorus
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