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New Year's Day 1980

from Scorpio Rising (2022) by Dan Frechette

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New Year’s Day 1980

She lived beneath a shadow in those years untouched by dreams
Her tattooes told grim tales of a girl who once braved the scene
She can't be my friend no more, this was the farthest she could fall
But she lived her life like she was going to die before she'd even lived at all

She grew up in boredom town with a stepfather he never knew
He was always out doing his drug jobs, breaking in his old pair of shoes
when she turned 16 in 1978 she'd heard the bandwagon call
and she lived her life like she was going to die before she'd even lived at all

She ran into vanity stuck-ups who let her run the show
soon she was singing for cocktails and dancing for middle aged crows
Her evenings were branded with fast lane ways, she came each time she was called
And she lived her life like she was going to die before she even lived at all.

She'd told me once she was frightened of perverts armed with knives
cemetaries filled with old friends and nightclubs filled with life
And fear brings down some people like a roof without any walls
So she lived her life like she was going to die before she'd even lived at all

On New Year’s Day 1980, there's a letter near her bed
saying "I been watching myself dying every night without a prayer for me being said"
And her last words on her paper in her half-hearted pencil scrawl
"I've lived my life like I was going to die and I haven't even lived at all".

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from Scorpio Rising (2022), released February 17, 2022

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