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Such Simple Love (demo)

from Hold On by Billy Dechand

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“Such Simple Love” from Selected Poems 1938-1988 by Thomas McGrath, is used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P. O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, USA, www.CopperCanyonPress.org. Copyright © 1988 by Thomas McGrath.

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All night long I hear the sleepers toss
Between the darkened window and the wall.
The madman's whimper and the lover's voice,
The worker’s whisper and the sick child’s call –
Knowing them all

I’d walk a mile, maybe, hearing some cat
Crying its guts out, to throttle it by hand,
Such simple love I had. I wished I might –
Or God might – answer each call in person and
Each poor demand.

Well, I’d have been better off sleeping myself.
These fancies had some sentimental charm,
But love without direction is a cheap blanket
And even if it did no one any harm,
No one is warm.

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from Hold On, released August 1, 2003
Words by Thomas McGrath, Music by Billy Dechand, 2003 Bucktooth Music ASCAP

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