Donny, don't take my croft from me

from Tourism by Andrew Eaton Lewis

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Donny, don’t take my croft from me
It’s all that I’ve got to keep me company
Donny, don’t take my croft from me
It’s all that you’re not, and it makes me happy

I know that my mind is not what it was
I know that my hands shake in the evenings
But I remember Glasgow like colour TV
And I can’t breathe that air, don’t do that to me.

Donny, don’t take my croft from me
It’s all that I’ve got to keep me company
Donny, you make no sense to me.
Two dozen sheep are all the life I need

You may have won power of attorney
But you have lost the power of empathy
How can you talk about prosperity
When out of my window I can see galaxies?

That orange glow that blots out your sky
Consider it a warning
The shrill car alarm that fills up your ears
First thing every morning

Yeah I know that my light is dying
But before I’m a neutron star
I intend to go supernova
In the back seat of your car
Oh if only I could get the words out.

Dad, what are you saying to me?
You’re making no sense,
You have tears in your eyes
Don’t fret about your skeletal sheep
They’re in safe hands now
We caught them just in time
We’ll drive by the croft
Say one last goodbye.

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from Tourism, released March 18, 2022

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