| His exhausted frame tumbled towards the town square
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| Like a tin can being shoved by bullying gusts of wind
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| The shocked witnesses in the square watched in slow motion
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| Praying for a sudden occurance to wake them from this nightmare
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| But nothing happens
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| No pinch, no fall, nor slap
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| Just a bunch of 'Oh my Gods"
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| Leaking from their quivering lips
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| Our fugitive walks past the scenes of many crimes
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| Pains, loves, and joys
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| The memories that entered his mind voraciously
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| Soaked up the vivid colors of the present
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| Leaving the sky charcoal colored and everything else of hue of salmon
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| He then noticed that he too was the color of his surroundings
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| A powerful gust of wind pushes him directly in front of the steps of his
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| redemption
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| This would be the wood frame house that he and his wife purchased
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| A few months before their son was born
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| With every step on the porch
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| A storm raging in the charcoal skies sens bolts of electricity from the heavens
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| He keeps stepping
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| Nevermind the stories he used to hear as a child
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| About heaven’s assassins coming down from the disgruntled skies in their
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| chariots of lightning
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| Our fugitive keeps stepping
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| He needs to explain everything to his son
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| Only then the weight of this burden would be lifted
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| The strong winds carry a sound that made his spine shudder with horror
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| This would be the howling of six bloodhounds
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| Sounding like bell tolls from the cathedrals of hell
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| He can smell the blood of the warden
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| And hear the saliva crash from his mouth to the ground
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| Louder than the thunder raging in the storm
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| He continues to advance towards the door
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| After two quick knocks on the door his son answers
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| The great waters of the Tennessee River gush from our fugitive’s eyes
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| «Baby boy» he whispers
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| The cocoon gets warm and antennas begin to surface from it’s shell
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| Simultaneously with a strike of lightning
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| A single bullet leaves the warden’s rifle and travels through the town square
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| Restoring the vivid colors that the fugitive’s memory had taken away
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| The bullet soars perfectly silent with the rhythmic cadence of the heartbeats
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| And breath
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| And there goes 500 chains
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| One, two, three, four, five feet
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| Six, seven, eight, nine feet
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| Ten, eleven, twelve feet deep
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| Our fugitive falls
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| The burden remains
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| The warden’s eyes become glassy
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| He takes a few steps backwards with the barrel of his rifle still smoking
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| One witness of the shooting
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| An older, clean cut gentleman dressed in all white laughs
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| And tips his hat to the warden
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| And simply says the word «Perfection»
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| The condescending laugh of the old gentleman resonates in the empty chamber of
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| the warden’s chest
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| The warden wipes his eyes dry
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| Six bloodhounds and baby boy stare at his puzzled face
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| 500 chains |