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Stray

from Little Sun by Charlie Parr

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lyrics

How can you say he’s gone astray
The days find him alone
Always miles from anywhere
Never finding his way home

How can you say he’s always dirty
Well, he’s got nowhere to wash
Everyone avoids him
No matter what the cost

To his damaged ego
To his worn-out shoes
Thin clothes against the cold
Thin hearts against his own

Let the rope out easy
Bring everyone on board
Mend the broken hearts
Take on their heavy loads

He hears about your religion
All about his sinful ways
All about the god who loves him
But will punish him anyways

But he already knows the lake of fire
He swims in it every day
He’s beaten down with neglect
And burned with hypocrisy

How can you say there’s a stray
In the middle of your town
He can feel the anger in your eyes
Where empathy should be found

I hear he’s lost his family
Or they let him wander away
Can anyone speak on his behalf
Or has someone rigged the game

Let the rope out easy
Bring everyone on board
Mend the broken hearts
Take on their heavy loads

credits

from Little Sun, released March 22, 2024
Charlie Parr: vocals / guitars / harmonicas
Marisa Anderson: electric guitar
Victor Krummenacher: electric bass / upright bass / bass VI
Andrew Borger: drums / percussion
Asher Fulero: piano / Hammond / keyboard
Anna Tivel: backing vocals

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Charlie Parr Duluth, Minnesota

"Parr is scruffy and uncomfortable looking, with a longish beard and balding head. He dropped out of high school in the 1980s, but he looks older than that. He's pathologically deadpan in his delivery of in between song banter. The crowd really enjoyed his depressingly hilarious dead cat story. He never smiles." - Lucy Steigerwald

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