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Pocket Knife

from Pocket Knife by Morgan Haner

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We were sleeping in the back of the car
In a truck stop station
Hoping that the cops wouldn't knock
On the windows at night
With a hatchet and a pocket knife
Nearby for protection
With a bedsheet over the windows
To keep out the light

Stopping on the side of the road
To check my transmission
Following the railroad tracks
All the way through the state
If it kills me, or it drives me insane
I'm going to make you my mission
Everybody tried to get me to quit
But I won't take the bait

There's something in the whites of your eyes
That I can't find in my waking mind
It don't matter how hard that I try

I'm coasting on fumes
Past the Gateway Arch and the river
And the shoulder is filled with old bottles
And pieces of glass
And now there's nothing but feed for the cattle
And grist for the grain mill
Where once there were flocks of wild geese
And tall prairie grass

And there's something in the whites of your eyes
That I can't find in my waking mind
It don't matter how hard that I try

Now I'm caught between love
And the fear of defeat I've been given
By a nation of cowards
Who tear my belief from my hand
Then I see you in silhouette,
naked, at dusk, in the highland
And I'm glad that exactly none of this
Went as I planned

Well there's something in the whites of your eyes
That I can't find in my waking mind
It don't matter how hard that I try
There's something in the whites of your eyes
That I can't find in my waking mind
It don't matter how hard that I try

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from Pocket Knife, released June 11, 2021

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Morgan Haner Kalamazoo, Michigan

Morgan Haner failed music school auditions.

From the humble beginnings of self recorded teenage basement tapes, 2 hours from any interstate in Illinois corn country, his more recent songs have been curated onto “best of” lists from Spain to Brazil and beyond.

His songs tell stories in the great tradition of American songwriting.
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