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Lissin
· May 22, 2026
Morning News Ballad
The Storyteller's Dispatch
This Week's Verse
The Storyteller's Dispatch
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This Week's Verse
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Gather 'round and listen for a spell
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Got another story I must tell
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Pulled it from the wires and the air
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A tangled knot of hope and of despair
0:17
I heard it on the wind in Atlanta town
0:21
And from the highest court as word came down
0:25
Just another chapter, worn and old
0:30
A tale of power, bought and sold.
0:34
Oh, the headlines roll on like a thundercloud
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Spoken soft and shouted way too loud
0:42
But you strip away the date and all the names
0:47
You're left with just the same old human games
0:51
A song of fear, a ballad of the fight
0:55
I'm just here to sing it in the fading light.
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Two old men stood underneath the glare
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With a silent nation holding to a prayer
1:08
One man's voice was faltering and low
1:12
A river struggling for a place to flow
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The other swung with words as sharp as stone
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About a kingdom he once called his own
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They talked of numbers, borders, and disease
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While a worried country rustled like the trees.
1:34
Oh, the headlines roll on like a thundercloud
1:38
Spoken soft and shouted way too loud
1:42
But you strip away the date and all the names
1:47
You're left with just the same old human games
1:51
A song of fear, a ballad of the fight
1:55
I'm just here to sing it in the fading light.
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Then the gavels fell on a marble hill
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Making laws the way they always will
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For a soul in Idaho who's losing blood
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Caught between a law and what is good
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And for the weary man with no place for his head
2:21
Now it's a crime to make the street his bed
2:25
From the highest halls to the gutters deep
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Promises are things they never keep.
2:34
Oh, the headlines roll on like a thundercloud
2:38
Spoken soft and shouted way too loud
2:42
But you strip away the date and all the names
2:47
You're left with just the same old human games
2:51
A song of fear, a ballad of the fight
2:55
I'm just here to sing it in the fading light.
