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Empty Tame and Ugly

from Microcosmos by Lou Turner

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Empty Tame and Ugly borrows its title from this quote by James Baldwin:
“We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are. And we cannot possibly become what we would like to be until we are willing to ask ourselves just why the lives we lead on this continent are mainly so empty, so tame, and so ugly.”

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I didn’t see no horse
I didn’t see no spur
I didn't see how you could rope the world in your lasso
You got a big guitar
You got three old chords
but they don’t tell no truth
You have three chords that make your lasso
and their names are empty tame and ugly

It’s on the tip of your tongue
The timeless troubadour song
You got her under your thumb
Her name is Hejira
She’s gotten under your skin
She made her bed in it
Tell her the one again about
The nudie suited outlaw
She’s not some steel-toe-booted cowgirl
But even she can see its empty tame and ugly

You said you’d make Hank proud
But all your buckets got holes in ‘em
You said you saw the light
But even the devil can’t afford your soul
so you’ve been selling swaths of darkness
All in shades of empty tame and ugly

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from Microcosmos, released September 2, 2022

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