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Throwaway People

from Local Life by Dave Perkins

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Throwaway People
Words and music by Dave Perkins
Dreambox (ASCAP) 2014

Just for the summer—one more clear-skin volunteer
Back again in August for the senior year
They called it chasing rainbows—building castles in the sky
But some angels will fly low for those the world leaves behind –the throwaway people

Campus gone quiet—nighttime lovers on the lawn were gone
All our friends were leaving—she’d not go along
Not to the seaside—not bike across France
Far off something called to her—called to her to dance—with the throwaway people

Could have been a queen—maybe a star
Paraded into rooms—famous for charm
She left behind choices—forgot about plans
Cashed out on the privilege a name commands—for the throwaway people

Bridge:
Noble of virtue, wiser than years
Higher above me in rare atmospheres

Soup lines and ladles—army cots for cradles
Sister of mercy—giver of grace
To touch what no one wants to touch—embrace what few would hold
To see those who cannot be seen—in her heart she made a home—for throwaway people

The golden wheel keeps turning, turning—passing by the unlucky and the rejected
Threshing fields of beauty, like some great machine
Wounded by progress, left out in the rain
The golden wheel keeps turning, and it treats us all the same
. . . like throwaway people

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from Local Life, released June 12, 2023

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Dave Perkins Tennessee

Dave Perkins' musical journey crisscrosses the map of American music. As guitarist, he played bluegrass and swing with Vassar Clements, renegade-country with Jerry Jeff Walker, singer-songwriter pop with Carole King, Americana with Guy Clark, blues-jazz with violinist Papa John Creach, alt-rock with Chagall Guevara, industrial hard-core with Passafist, and a video performance with Ray
Charles.
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