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“Swept Away” – a serious song written after a bad flood in Texas. Mainstream country artists, take note. Big hit if you get this ready for radio next time the rain starts.

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SWEPT AWAY
Doug Benson
December 27, 1991


Clouds roll together
And cover the sky
The roads are in for hard weather
And so am I

Water the windows
Washing them down
Rain fills the fields and the gardens
And covers the ground

Old battered birds
With nowhere to land
Dance on the rooftops
As they try to stand

As rain becomes stream becomes flood
God’s little acre of land
Turns homes into mud

Our powerful hammers
Would rip us asunder
But they would not damage
The wind and the thunder

Half of me wonders
How the other half lives
When the rain comes down
To claim the life that it gives

Old battered T-Birds
Silently float
Past the wrecks of a dealer‘s
Superior boats

Years of labor and toil
Hundreds of dreams washed away
On rivers of soil

Rescue for some
Comes in the cold mists of day
Other phantoms succumb
To be swept away.

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from Neon Bus God, released September 18, 2012

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D.S. Benson
Musician. Writer. Made of meat. Mostly biodegradable.

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