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Jazz on the Autobahn

from From Dreams to Dust by The Felice Brothers

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The sheriff disappeared
he drove in a doomed corvette
Helen was in the passenger seat
eating melon and spitting out the seeds
feeling happy to be alone
but still turning a saxophone as cold as stone
She said this is what the apocalypse will look like
a tornado with human eyes
poisoned birdbaths and torrents of chemical rain
like the heads of state hyperventilating in clouds of methane
sundown on the human heart,
this is what the the apocalypse will sound like
but it'll be loud as a mushroom cloud
it'll sound like final jeopardy
but somehow be ghostly like a glockenspiel
like the testing of bombs or the tapping of stiletto heels
it'll sound like JAZZ
JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ
JAZZ on the autobahn

The sheriff disagreed
he tried to make a distinction between death and extinction
they stopped off at a place called hamburger heaven to grab a bite to eat
but Helen had no appetite she just drank a 7 up while the sheriff tapped his coffee cup to a distant beat
it won't look like those old frescoes , i don't think so
there will be no angels with swords,
no jubilant beings in the sky above
and it wont look like those old movies neither
no drag racing through the bombed out streets
no shareholders will be orbiting the earth
it will be hard to recognize each other through our oxygen masks
the successful sons of business men will set their desks on fire
while 5 star generals of the free world weep in the oil chocked tide
it won’t sound like JAZZ
JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ
JAZZ on the autobahn

They agreed to disagree
they zoomed off in a doomed corvette
the sheriff couldn't recall feeling this way his entire life
as he drove through the principalities of unreality on the run with somebody else’s wife
the heiress of Texas oil
what is freedom he thought,
is it to be empty of desire?
is it to find everything I've lost or have been in search of or to return to the things is which there is no more returning does it feel like jazz?
JAZZ JAZZ JAZZ
JAZZ on the autobahn

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from From Dreams to Dust, track released September 17, 2021
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