483 - the people who were hidden

 

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483

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the people who were hidden

you can see them now

they’re in the picture

they’re taking the pictures too 

call it country 

know where I am 

kept quiet 

picture that 

people who were silent

they are still protecting secrets 

paper aeroplane, jetty

     leap off into the dark

those who were mute 

hear them now 

speak for themselves

it’s out of the mouth of a canon 

jelly folk of a singalong bounce 

no one speaks for them

this long road 

and the bones of the gone 

the never quite vanish 

all because 

one lie to kick off 

believe anything then 

like thieving’s okay

just the once if it’s us 

if God gives 

invisible people 

can you smell them now? 

something won’t wash 

but tricked to belief 

the people who were fucked up 

the people who were buried 

now they are crawling out of the grave

they’ve lived it 

everyone’s asking - 

who dug that?

will it be revenge?

people were furniture before

they were landscape, fauna  

and curled up under a missed truth 

not just us 

everybody was 

but it’s turning 

the world, I mean 

people who were hidden before 

you can see them now