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A Snowy Picture and a Coverless Book

from Autopilot by Mitchell Thompson

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This track is about growing up by force and taking care of those closest to you, may it be family, friends, partners, and how that matures and ages you.

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Years before you came,
I lived in a house full of siblings,
All children raised in pain,
Each day they'd hear our mother dying slowly,
She prayed for her sons,
For her daughters, for something better, but it never did come,
Leaving us undone,
Never bothered, tied together, bound as one

One house standing alone on a hill,
Where five kids share a loaf of bread
One sick mother coughs the day away in bed,
A snowy picture and a coverless book,
Is all that's left to be shown,
Weathered by weather, it lacks the look of home,

The day that mother passed,
I got myself a job loading boxes
To pay for food and gas,
To drive those kids to school out by the crosses,
One by one they grew,
Into men and women ready to go face the world anew,
And I felt older too,
Too old to live the life I felt was overdue

Up in that house with only one mouth to feed,
Where five kids once shared a loaf of bread,
All of the walls started crumbling into shreds,
A snowy picture and a coverless book
Helped me want to move away,
To a colder city somewhere father east to stay,

All alone in towns I've never known,
That over time had grown into a place called home,
Where I met you, a woman from Peru,
A doting beauty who cared for me through and through,
Still today, I hear my siblings play,
On a hill so far away, in that home filled with decay,
Where nothing remains, and everyday it rains,
And barely it's retained, as a sad memory in my brain,

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from Autopilot, released November 1, 2010

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Mitchell Thompson San Francisco, California

Solo artist/songwriter, working on various forms of rock and folk, mainly in the form of concept albums.

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