Left Hand Path

from Sorry State by Christopher Thomas Elliott

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She’s sick and tired, full of regret.
She can’t read her phone, but she ain’t dead yet.
Her husband’s gone, children moved.
She’s just about ready to try something new.

The preacher calls it wrong. The kids call it weed.
The doctor says, “Clara, it’s what you need.
Just inhale, and the pain will pass.”
Now she calls it her happy grass.

It’s never too late to take the left hand path.
It’s never so grim you shouldn’t laugh at that.
Put on your party hat.

She’d never given peace a chance
With their long hair and stupid hippie dance,
But now she grooves to a different drum.
She understands where the hippies were coming from.

She sings along with the radio.
She makes up words to the songs she doesn’t know.
She smell flowers. She grows salad greens.
She draws and paints images from her dreams.

The choir master disapproves.
His wife and daughter battle booze.
One night he drank too much red wine
And crashed his car into the church’s bingo sign.
Lord save us all from demon alcohol.
Let the path lead you astray.

Now Clara’s got such an appetite
She gets up to snack two or three times a night.
Her homemade brownies sure taste good.
She shouldn’t take them to the bake sale
Or maybe she should.

It’s never too late to take the left hand path.
It’s never so grim you shouldn’t laugh at that.
Put on your party hat,
Put on your party hat,
And take the left hand path.

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from Sorry State, released May 1, 2020

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