Wildflowers

from Human Harvest by Jim Ballard

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Wild Flowers

Look behind those american streets beyond the shops where money screams thru shattered glass and overgrown grass to the back lot of broken dreams
Amongst the trash and flotsam and clutter where a thousand points of darkness abound stray dogs run free as they twitch in uneasy dreams hope and beauty still breakin ground
And the wild flowers grow
Through the broken blacktop through the ice and snow And the wild flowers grow
And they lean and they bend when the wild winds blow
Little boy playin in an ice box shell
down the corner of forgotten row
but the child is strong and it won’t be long he’ll blossom and he’ll grow just like
The wild flowers grow
In the shadow of the high rise in the street lamp glow And the wild flowers grow
In the cellar of the city where no one goes
Some seeds take to hard earth some are scattered on the wind some blow in the dust of the city out beyond where the sidewalks end
some are tossed without a second thought and they fall where they will
in the stone in the gravel in the vacant lot trampled and trodden all but forgotten but still
still...
The wild flowers grow
In the high rise shadow in the street lamp glow The wild flowers grow
In the cellar of the city where no one ever goes
The wild flowers grow
Through the broken blacktop through the ice and snow And the wild flowers grow
And they bend and they lean when the hard winds blow

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from Human Harvest, released June 1, 2012

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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio

Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan. ... more

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