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Chalk On A Blackboard

from Industrial City In The Clouds by Jean Koning

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We're chalk on a blackboard
Go from this world to the next
Our ships will leave the port
Our minds will one day forget

When you ride through our town
With sunlight through woolly clouds
You will tangle upside down
Don't know how to make your parents proud

In search of new harbors
Our whaling fleet gets lost
An horizon of armors
Will pay for our healing costs

The mills slowly turning
The bearing wind in their sails
The meadows are burning
Not one creation has ever failed

All of them are hard working
Communists 'till the end of days
But now the tables are turning
The world no longer taking over our ways

The green, and white, and red
A trademark for all to see
It kind of makes me sad
They're cutting down our family tree

The chalk, now erasing
We're dust in the wind
We're traveling fast
The chalk, now erasing
What have we done to our past?

We're chalk on a blackboard
Slowly everyday erased
We're chalk on a blackboard
Slowly everyday erased

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from Industrial City In The Clouds, released April 25, 2013

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Jean Koning Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jean Koning has been a compelling force in the underground music scene since his unlikely folk&jazz debut transferring the band The Children of a Lesser God into the avant-punk extravaganza !JP in 1988. His star-studded career includes albums such as Notes from Purgatory, Man Enough to be a Woman and Wake Up In L.A.
Throughout his career, Mr. Koning has been honored with numerous awards.
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