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Ghost of Saiko

from Grey Eye (old version) by Steve Yannacone

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A man walks alone beneath the moon on a wide, never-ending dirt road eclipsed on both sides by low-hanging vines. The wind howls through the tarred white cloth draping from his chest, which misses too much of its back end to be called a shirt. Stumbling through the dense forest, a fog suffocates the earth in an ethereal blanket. The vines clear to give way to two walls of trees entrapping the man in a single forward progression. The man pushes forward, and he begins to make out a figure standing in the middle of the road in the distance. It’s a young boy - 6 or 7 perhaps – standing at attention in militaristic salute like a long forgotten statue alone in a misty park. He wears a green colonial-looking vestment. Outshining everything else, though, is his smile – a wide, shining, youthful countenance, paused in time in playful cheer. The man calls out for a name, but in return, nothing comes. A minute more and he could touch the boy with his hand, but as if stricken by a bolt of lightning, the boy turns tail, kicking up dirt and gravel as he goes. The man pursues, but after only a few steps, his lungs fill with cold air, his heart thuds irregularly, and his knees buckle. He is on his hands and knees, face to face with the hard and ruthless earth – the oldest of his enemies. The drunken glow of the midnight moon burns the scars on his back, searing them deeper into his flesh.

lyrics

Elijah: There…..
Hanging laughter like the morning dew
Young boy coming into view.
Standing at salute.

Saiko: Mr. Elijah, be my eyes, help me see through the dark.

Elijah: You’re a little beaten meadowlark,
And I almost feel bad for you,
but I’m too far through.

Run away (Saiko: Bye Bye)….Why do you turn heel and run away?
If it’s that way (Saiko: Bye Bye)….Why come at all little child?
Little child…

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from Grey Eye (old version), released July 9, 2017
feat: Jonathon Burne (voice)
Gabriel Morosky (drums)

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Steve Yannacone West Chester, Pennsylvania

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