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Wings

from Sisterly by Jean Rohe

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Wings

They all stood out in the prison yard
And they built wings out of scrap wood and cardboard
This ain't no metaphor
When I talk I talk straight
If I run I'm running late
And what I said I seen you bet I saw
They were building wings in the prison yard

I don't know where they got the wood
Or the hammers and the nails or the notion that they could climb
Out from underneath their crime
But the watches and the clocks
The calendars, the locks spun back
Feel the years unwind
Oh, those prisoners turned back time

The river runs south
The train runs up and down its lonesome track
Every Saturday all the men run down
To call their families back at home
Time used to run a straight, relentless line

Til the day they built their wings
And the wings, they hit the air
And the air stirred up the seasons
And strew them everywhere
And now they're back before their sentence
Back before their crime
Long before the reason
Long before the rhyme
Before the birth of a boy into poverty
The birth of a nation in slavery
The sweat of the many and the wealth of a few
The hurt called caring, the lies called true
Before Icarus ascended to the sky
Before anybody told him not to try

They built their wooden wings so light
Strapped to their backs, see them shimmer in the bright sky
And one by one see each man fly
Past the turrets and the guards
The razor wire and bars
Down the Hudson and out of sight
Oh, those prisoners took flight.

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from Sisterly, released November 2, 2018

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Jean Rohe Brooklyn, New York

Jean Rohe writes one-of-a-kind narrative songs, concerned as much with the interior lives of her narrators as with the wider world outside them. She is a 2022 Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Grant recipient. Her latest full-length record as a bandleader, "Sisterly," won best Adult Contemporary Album at the Independent Music Awards in 2019. ... more

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