Of joy and sorrow, a tear

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In the evening of my sadness

I put on my dark sunglasses

And look into the warm and breezy night

All alone I stroll and see

Two people at the cemet’ry

Before the headstones, standing, talking quiet

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Along the avenue we ride

Our windows down, hair blown aside

We throw our fits and smoke and sing and dance

Into the wind the music blares

Pedestrians just turn and stare

And shake their heads at our irreverence

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You and I have walked this street

Thus each and every year we meet

Remembering one lost who was so dear

When street noise our attention guides

To solitary figure hides

Behind his shades to try and mask a tear

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Bad neighbors moved into my home

Lay waste to hearts, themselves and roam

The streets they built so death can faster travel

Into the night, until the dawn

I fly and cast my eyes upon

A force that threatens to my world unravel

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The users bend and break the rules

Who’d buy and sell the tears of fools

They make the oceans cry and sky to fall

And for their efforts tireless

I see behind my darkened glass

That human kindness balances them all