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Maybe My Work Here Is Done

from Right Here by Dave Laurence

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I was a young man with ideals, and a future away from the fields
that my Daddy left when he died in ninety four.
I never cared much for the farm, but the family would come to harm
if we didn’t keep it going like we did before.
We always did what we could to survive,
so I traded my briefcase in for a scythe.

Ever since I was seven or eight, I started planning my escape
from the Beckham County farm where I was born.
It didn’t go the way I planned, so we held on to the land,
It worked for a while but the years have left me worn.
The tough get going when the going gets tough,
But twenty two years has been long enough,
It’s gritty and rough and it never has been any fun,
and I’m starting to think, maybe my work here is done.

I used to dream of concrete canyons and intellectual companions,
Even as I plowed this field, I planned to depart.
Now I realize profoundly, as it withers all around me,
I still have time but I don’t know where to start.

Now the family’s grown and gone, packed it up and moved it on,
The way I wish I had back in the day.
I thought that one might stay around, but the dry and dusty ground
from the drought of twenty twelve drove him away.
Completing the task is the measure of a man,
But I won’t die with this scythe in my hand,
I worked the land and the land worked me and it won,
Now I’m looking around, maybe my work here is done.

Now I lay me down, baby, my work here is done.

©2016 David L. Laurence (BMI). Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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from Right Here, released September 22, 2017

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Dave Laurence Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Folksy, but rock solid. Soft with a hard edge. Eclectic, yet familiar. Unpretentious, but confident. Buys his stage clothes in thrift shops.

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