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Adapted from the original by Tony Brown and the Duende Project in Worcester, MA. Lyrics by Tony Brown

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Crumbs
Aren’t you tired
of living on crumbs?
Aren’t you tired
of fighting for crumbs?

Of waking up
after three hours’ sleep
and lying awake
until morning?
Of rising and aiming
your heart at a job
that takes all you’ve got
then returns a few scraps from
some folks at a table
you won’t ever see
that hangs above you
like a solid cloud —

aren’t you tired
of waiting for crumbs?
Aren’t you tired of
living on crumbs?

Of hearing three words of praise
for your being and doing
for every four hundred
you hear in rebuke?
Of seeing the horizon
as some kind of carrot
to keep you running
with the stick right behind?
Of becoming the person
you dreaded you’d be
when you thought the horizon
was a sweet dance away?

Aren’t you tired
of scratching for crumbs?
Aren’t you tired
of living on crumbs?

Here comes day
and then night
and then day
and then night
and every hour
falls into gray
till you can’t tell the difference
anymore
Here comes something
falling from the table
One atom of sleep or
one atom of comfort or
one atom of peace or
one atom of how to get by
And just as you catch it
It melts into memory
Then it grows in your memory
That’s how you survive

By turning those bits
into magnified moments
Turning those moments
into amplified stories
Fantasies of joy
you claim to believe
and try to believe
and want to believe —
A whole culture feeds that
even while it bleeds you
Makes it hard to get past it
and realize that
it’s the dark of the day
and the dark of the night
at the same exact moment
and it is every moment…

you know you are starving
though you can’t admit it —

and aren’t you tired
of living on crumbs?
Aren’t you tired?

@02020 by Tony Brown

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released August 31, 2021
Michael Gutierrez-May, vocals and guitar
Beth Gray, vocals and bass guitar

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Michael Gutierrez-May Uxbridge, Massachusetts

Social worker by vocation, writer and musician by avocation. Member of ASCAP. Involved with acoustic music for the past 35 years as a coffeehouse manager, concert organizer and currently singer-songwriter and song collaborator.

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