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Jupiter and Its Moons

from Bloodline by Wampeters

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when it's cold at night she lights a fire
so he can keep on keeping on
slaving till the dawn
and the children see him on Saturdays
when a wave of enervation
has put him away

when duty calls she answers the bell
so he can save the western world
with his old typewriter
and she makes him eat when he forgets
so he can build a taller mountain
of ink-stained paper

and she says
will it be over soon
but she knows the familiar tune
it's like the sight in the sky
of Jupiter and its moons

and when he sees the children in the park
he's the conquering hero
the one they adore
and when he sits down to tell them a story
they make a circle around him
and hang on every word

look in the sky
the untrained eye
can find a bright bold planet
hanging high
but the telescope reveals
the satellites floating
in space above their moorings
night after night

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from Bloodline, released September 1, 1993
©1993, 2021 Wampus Multimedia. Words and music by Mark Doyon (ASCAP/WMM Songs).

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