For This Is The Land Where The Pharoah Died

i wanna tell you
about texas radio
and the big beat
it comes out of
the virginia swamps
cool and slow
with a back beat
narrow and
hard to master
some call it heavenly
in it's brilliance
others, mean and rueful
of the western dream
i love the friends
i have gathered together
on this thin raft
we have constructed
pyramids in honor
of our escaping
for this is the land
where the pharaoh died
children, the river
contains specimens
the voices of
singing women
call us from
the far shore
and they are saying
"forget the night
live with us
in forests of azure"
meagre food for
souls forgot
i tell you this:
no eternal reward
will forgive us now
for wasting the dawn
and one morning
you awoke to
a strange sun
and opening your door....
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Tower of Ra and Shiva Temple
outside Palisade Canyon
Doors: "Texas Radio and the Big Beat"
"Love Me Two Times"
Dana Butte from Utah Flats
Hermit Canyon
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flaming star