Keychain Buddha

from Heaven & Earth by Andrew Robert Palmer

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I know what you’re thinking -
I’m screwing around
And if I were thinking
I would be turning around
And heading back to the city
Well I hate to let you down
But Now I’m free

But true freedom is only
In between towns
In between ages and stages
When you’re allowed it
Cuz as soon as you arrive
That’s when they nail you down
Just look at me

So when this life is over
I wanna be reborn a Buddha
Or do I?
Or do I?
Or do i?

I’ll take the four leaf highway clover
Until this life is over
Until I
See through my
true eyes

Meanwhile the city is shrinking
I’m heading south bound
And Abe Lincoln is winking
In the shape of a cloud
The sky is pink and blue and gold
And as the suns going down
I feel free

I guess I’ll know when it hits me
But it hasn’t yet
I’m stuck in dukkha, samsara
And it’s all in my head
The open road is sometimes
As close as It gets to being free

And then I won’t come back
I’m never coming back
Never coming back again

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from Heaven & Earth, released August 12, 2022

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Andrew Robert Palmer Chicago, Illinois

I'm a regular guy doing a very small thing.

Chicago-based. Sometimes rock, sometimes folk.

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