Birmingham Shadows

Birmingham
 Just behind the mountain
 Sparse streelamps glow in hot half-moon haze
 Shadows shorten into little black pools that elongate behind
 We walk, talk some, laugh some
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 Worked hard, now wired, and hanging out
 I'm curious what you might be all about
 Curious, too, what that dark-shape in the hard shining cruiser might do
 And you have no idea what you're getting
 out of of your own curiosity and tense energy
 Tattoo on chest like the key to the puzzle of your pumping heart
 Wearing your shadows all over your sleeve
 Wearing the role of young upstart
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 Birmingham shadows fall
 You show a little, I let something show too
 It's now or not at all
 Out on the road, it's always instant get-to-know-you
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 Under velvet trees, towering like the sides of a well
 Before the empty two office blocks
 Which we're admonished not to enter
 Policeman studies us, finds us confusing
 More amusing than threat
 Moves on, bemused
 Pavement spirals down ahead like the fossil of a giant shell
 Along the kingdom's midnight marches
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 I wear my shadows where they're harder to see
 But they follow me everywhere
 I guess that should tell me that I'm travelling toward light
 I guess something you sang made me remember that
 I guess I'm saying thanks for that
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 Birmingham shadows fall
 You show a little, I let something show too
 It's now or not at all
 Out on the road, it's always instant get-to-know-you
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 Got a head full of horrors and a heart full of night
 At home in the darkness, but hungry for dawn
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 I only remember scenes, never the stories I live
 The good things about that is, it's easy to forgive
 Can't make assumptions about any of this
 We're nomads following our own songlines
 Who knows what could strike before we meet again?
 But if I fall down and die
 Without saying goodbye
 I give you this: you'll have lost a friend
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 Birmingham shadows fall
 You show a little, I let something show too
 It's now or not at all
 Out on the road, it's always instant get-to-know-you