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EXILE


When I was born it was a shock
a little after 10 o’clock
in the morning, it was not so bad
but the place was kind of sad
a military hospital
the army hard when you are little
and you don’t know what is what
an army doctor slapped my butt
it is hard to put into words
but ever since I have preferred
a woman to the military
being born is pretty scary

I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS EXILE-RATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS SO ILL-FATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS CARBONATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS COMPLICATED

Then there is the lone male syndrome
I was young when I left home
though I left it in my mind
a while before, the things you find
when you are standing in the sun
and thumbing a ride on highway one
a slow ride with an old musician
and he played his own rendition
of Satin Doll with a guitar
you don’t have to go too far
before you’re in another zone
without a woman, on your own

I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS EXILE-RATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS SO ILL-FATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS CARBONATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS COMPLICATED

I met a woman from a foreign
country, I was feeling torn
it was a natural selection
with a built-in disconnection
so we took it across the ocean
with sometimes a greater notion
of a grand tour of the past
the Roman empire didn’t last
and we are washed up in the present
where we’re feeling some resentment
for the things that have been lost
the modern comes at such a cost

I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS EXILE-RATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS SO ILL-FATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS CARBONATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS COMPLICATED

I was talking with an old man
and it made my blood run cold
like he is living with abandon
it is hard to keep your hand in
when the world you knew is gone
and everybody has a gun
it makes me want to hold onto
the trees and rocks, with much ado
about the ways that we communicate
while looking at the moon
because we’re floating in the void
it’s like the desert has a voice

I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS EXILE-RATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS SO ILL-FATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS CARBONATED
I’M IN EXILE
MY LIFE IS COMPLICATED

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from EXILE (digital), released September 9, 2022
guitar & vocals: SG
bass: Jaime Duquette

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Steven Gray Connecticut

Steven Gray lived in San Francisco since before there were computers and people would communicate by sending smoke signals with their cigarettes. He’s a writer & musician whose recordings have been episodic. He read his work all over town for years, but using 2020 vision he moved to the coastline of Connecticut where he stares at the fire. His email:
telepoetic77@hotmail.com (don't use this site)
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