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The Prizefighter

from Evergreen Civil War by Animal Pharma

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I often see the river Styx
In bed, each night as it fills my view
And built with blackened marble bricks
I see a lighthouse standing too

Henry was a normal man
Who was pushed in a place where he
Had to fight for food and lodgings, too
Far from older luxuries
Homes and cars and penthouse views

And so he walked the streets at night
With raging anger, holding drink
He bought with waning widow's mite
To block the cords that made him think
About his losing fight

He'd been a boxer, standing tall
In the ring, his punches fast
The gamblers said he'd never fall
From victory, the losers past
His glaring sneer with gall

He had the title, cars and cash,
And yet he said he felt a dread
That all his anger and his brash
Taunts would go to victor's head
From skin to bones and bones to ash

They knocked him out in only three
Minutes in the ring, his spine would
Bend and crack with sickened glee
And cheers from boorish fans who could
sing for blood with ecstasy

The other man would walk away
With a title belt and stacks of cash
Poor Henry'd lost all hope that day
Of ever getting himself back
in the ring to fight for pay

He lost his keep and all his friends
Did leave him in the ring
He realised how a man pretends
To smile with a knife in hiding
Mis'ry starts, friendship ends

And so he walked the streets at night
And found his way out to the beach
His drink in hand, his hope so slight
He walked the pier and tried to reach
The light that blinked in sky so bright

Henry was a normal man
Who lost his battles, left his war
Standing on the pier that night
Two weeks they'd find him washed ashore
The dread before, not so undue

I often see the river Styx
In bed each night as it fills my view
And built with blackened marble bricks
I see a lighthouse standing too
Along the river Styx

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from Evergreen Civil War, released August 10, 2014
Transcribed from the poem 'Henry' written by Daniel Tu

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Studio Albums:

Zygoat – 29 July 2014

Evergreen Civil War – 10 August 2014

Pantomeme – 11 October 2014

Light of a Hard – 28 March 2015

The Vuuz – 10 May 2015

Mazel – 1 November

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