Set Me Free From This Lost Highway

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SET ME FREE FROM THIS LOST HIGHWAY
Words & Music : Tony Poole ©2021 Aurora Music

Cracked bell in Philadelphia
Silent figure in the New York Harbour
Under a hillside in West Virginia
I watch a memory of America

SET ME FREE FROM THIS LOST HIGHWAY
LET ME BE WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY

From the Tower the Trump it shilled the
Forgotten millions to release the beast
High on the Hill the tills of billions filled up
The ugly dishes of the Fascist Feast
The ugly dishes of the Fascist Feast

SET ME FREE FROM THIS LOST HIGHWAY
LET ME BE WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY

And the Lady Of The Harbour says:

Bring me your tired, your poor
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free
The wretched refuse of your teeming shores
Bring these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me
I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door
I lift my lamp beside the Golden Door

Down here on these silver screens
Between the shadows and the Technicolor
I see the flickers of a million dreams
Shining together into something bigger
A memory of America
Shining together into something bigger

SET ME FREE FROM THIS LOST HIGHWAY
LET ME BE WHERE I WAS YESTERDAY

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from Bells of Lightning, released October 31, 2021

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