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SPARROW SPARROW WAS A GOOD BOY MIDDLE SON OF A GENERAL HIS BODY WAS HIS FAVORITE TOY AND HIS MIND WAS HIS FAVORITE TOOL. SPARROW CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN ONE NIGHT INSIDE OF HIS DORM ROOM TRY AND BRING HIM DOWN AS THEY MIGHT HIS FRIENDS DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. AND FROM HIS VANTAGE POINT SPARROW SAW ALL OF HISTORY HE UNDERSTOOD HOW THE PYRAMIDS INTERSECTED WITH JACK KENNEDY PERFECTLY. HE STARTED TALKING AND HE COULD NOT STOP CAUSE THE MORE HE SAW THE MORE HE SAID THE MORE HE THOUGHT UP HIS FRIENDS COULDN’T REACH HIM BUT HE KNEW HE WAS IN TOUCH WITH THE TRUTH. WELL SOMEONE CALLED THE AUTHORITIES AS THEY WILL AND THEY CAME AND TOOK SPARROW AWAY GAVE HIM A SHOT OF SOMETHING MEAN AS THEY WILL AND PUT HIM IN A COMFORTABLE CAGE. SPARROW KEPT ON FLYING CIRCLES HE WAS TALKING NOT SLEEPING FOR THREE STRAIGHT DAYS WHEN HE FINALLY STOPPED AND THE CRASH CAME DOWN SPARROW COULD NOT RECALL A WORD HE’D SAID. DOCTORS KEPT HIM UNDER OBSERVATION GAVE HIM A NAME FOR HIS EPISODE SET HIM FREE ARMED WITH A PRESCRIPTION TO KEEP HIM CALM AND LOW OH SPARROW FLYING LOW. FOUR YEARS LATER ON A COUNTRY ROAD IN THE BED OF A PICKUP ON THE WAY TO THE SHOW THE DRIVER SWERVED AND HIT A TELEPHONE POLE SPARROW FLEW OUT AND THE LANDING CRUSHED HIS HOLLOW BONES. HE SPENT A YEAR IN FIBERGLASS IN AND OUT OF THE OPERATING ROOM HE SPENT HIS TIME HANGING WITH HIS FRIENDS AND THEY’D GO TO THE SHOW AND THE BAND WOULD PLAY HIS FAVORITE TUNE SPARROW JUST FOR YOU. WELL ONE BY ONE HIS FRIENDS STARTED LEAVING TOWN TO THE CITIES OR ADVENTURES OR GRADUATE SCHOOL SPARROW STARTED HANGING WITH A YOUNGER CROWD AND THEY SAID SPARROW YOUR SO GOOD AT EVERYTHING YOU DO. HE GOT A LITTLE MONEY FROM THE CRASH ENOUGH TO KEEP THE PRESSURE OFF ‘CAUSE HE FED HIMSELF FROM THE TRASH AND WITH HIS FREE TIME HE FED THE NEIGHBORHOOD. WELL SPARROW MOVED TO THE COUNTRY WITH HIS GIRL THEY SPENT A BLISSFUL YEAR OUT THERE THEY BOUGHT A TRUCK THEY WERE GOING TO TRAVEL THE WORLD BUT THEN SHE LEFT AND HE CUT OFF ALL HIS HAIR. HE STARTED DRIVING AND HE COULD NOT STOP CAUSE THE MORE HE MOVED THE MORE HE SAW THE MORE HE GOT CAUGHT UP IN IT ‘CAUSE THE ROAD IS ALWAYS PROMISING SOMETHING SOME MEANING IN A NEW FACE IN A NEW PLACE OR JUST A NEW TUNE SPARROW THIS ONE IS REALLY JUST FOR YOU. SO YOU KEEP YOURSELF UNDER OBSERVATION YOU MAKE UP NAMES FOR YOUR EPISODES YOU SET YOURSELF FREE WITH YOUR OWN PRESCRIPTION TO KEEP YOU CALM AND LOW OH SPARROW FLYING LOW. Summer
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