The Death of Sam Cooke

The Death of Sam Cooke
04/05/2006
by Tom Flannery copyright 2006

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Neon blinking through the windows
emptying out the mind
nightcrawlers and the bed bugs
leaving it all behind
soldiers lining the horizon
gonna undo what's been done
at the point of righteous anger
by the flash point of a gun

oh they tell me change
that change is gonna come someday
someday

Empty pockets or a bank roll
it's poverty just the same
when you're forced down on your knees
to play a waiting game
we don't serve your kind boy
oh just make it go away
if you don't want to help me up
just leave me where I lay

oh they tell me change
that change is gonna come someday
someday
oh they tell me change
that change is gonna come someday
someday

12/11 1964
it's etched now in the brain
Sam Cooke got rolled one last time
to some it's all the same
we're told that change will come
does it have to take so long
can the soul be be stirred up
by the refrain of a sad song

oh they tell me change
that change is gonna come someday
someday
oh they tell me change
that change is gonna come someday
someday