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The Great Divide

from When I Stayed Home by JAMES GORDON

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Train tracks running through a city often provide a border between rich and poor and black and white. It's the great divide

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Freight train rolling through a restless town
Whistle blows, that’s a lonesome sound
Two shorts and a long as the sun goes down
All along the great divide

On the east side when the shadows are long
It’s like your living inside a Tom Waits Song
An American dream that’s gone all wrong
All along the great divide

It’s not just the tracks that split this town
It’s a system built to keep you down
If you don’t have the money and your skin is brown
Then slavery’s alive
All along the great divide

On the west side everything’s pretty and green
Like the cover of a high-toned Magazine
Safe behind their gates, not a soul to be seen
All along the great divide

On the east side you can get shot in the back
For the crime of walking down the street while black
And that train keeps rolling, clickety clack
All along the great divide

Oh, it’s a ghost train ride
The wound is open and it is wide
You can’t cross over to the other side
All along the great divide

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from When I Stayed Home, released July 14, 2021

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JAMES GORDON Guelph, Ontario

James Gordon is a Canadian songwriter/playwright/musician/producer/author and community activist. Co-founder of the legendary Canadian folk trio Tamarack, He’s released 40 albums in 40 years!
His newest release on Borealis Records- "the Heritage Hall Sessions" has been very well received world-wide. James Moonlights as a CIty Councillor in his hometown of Guelph, Ontario. www.jamesgordon.ca ... more

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