Jan 25, 2012

Royal City last night

I became a thin blue flame
Polished on a mountain range
And over hills and fields I flew
Wrapped up in a royal blue

I flew over Royal City last night
A bullfighter on the horns of a new moon’s light
Caesar’s ghost, I saw the war-time tides
The prince of Denmark’s father still and quiet

And the whole world was looking to get drowned
Trees were a fist shaking themselves at the clouds
I looked over curtains and it was then that I knew
Only a full house gonna make it through


-- "Thin Blue Flame," Josh Ritter

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