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Relative Roses

from Exorcism by Ryan M. Brewer

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A late autumn breeze is rattling trees. I'm digging deep inside a mine of memories -
looking for a lump of coal to wring out like a rag. I squeeze diamond dust out on this notepaper pad.

From every ray of light I squeeze and shake - a burst of color; fall leaves to rake...
to rake and remember like legal tender so I can buy my way out of this slump.

She was a saint then. I was a good Catholic boy.
She was Baby's first most dangerous toy.
It was harder, then, to shutter a scene so Mama martyred them to keep The Kid's hands clean.

Every cracked angel whose song I heard - she propped them up so she could huff and puff and blow them back down to Earth.
A heart to break, a kiss to take...
to take and remember like legal tender so I can buy my way out of this slump.

Looking back, it's simple math - shit colored 20/20 glasses.
It's plain to see now, that the past - it kicked all of our asses.
History has its share of sinners and saints, villians and heroes.
It's easy to think we'd all come out smelling like relative roses.

She was my first real role on my first big stage.
I was her first real boy - her last big mistake.
She tried to advertise - I went hard in the paint.
She tried to posterize, nose grew like a list of complaints...

In every storm she culled, I capsized.
She swallowed each shipwreck with bloodshot eyes -
green eyes I remember like legal tender so I can buy my way out of this slump.

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from Exorcism, released July 28, 2020
Written, recorded and performed by Ryan M. Brewer
Mixed by Ryan M. Brewer and John Fishell
Mastered by Ryan Michael Gibbons

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Ryan M. Brewer Alexandria, Indiana

A singer/songwriter by trade, Ryan M. Brewer is more accurately described as a traveling musical storyteller. Having always placed the primary importance on lyricism, his songs tend to float effortlessly between genres...each one falling precisely where it needs to in order to most accurately tell the story. And that's all that matters - songs and stories. ... more

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