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The Witness

from Love is Love by Paul Sachs

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I told Troy
Night and day
Be wary of police
Don’t never stray
Far from the house
In a neighborhood where harm
Makes life hard for a single mom
Oh Lord I still see him coming home

Now his sister Rose
Was the younger one
Somehow they got their hands
On a pellet gun
They were playing outside
When I heard shots
Intuition told me it was the cops
Oh Lord I still see him coming home

His little sister was the witness
But she lost the will to speak
And her silence holds the answers
you seek

I ran down the block
With no shoes or breath
Troy lay bleeding
Close to death
I held him in my arms
He said “Mom I didn’t do...”
Rose was crying
She saw it too
OH Lord I still see him coming home

Oh the pistol looked real
That’s what they said
He was only twelve
Now my boy’s dead
If my daughter told the truth
It would be denied
All The men in blue say They’re sorry he died
Oh Lord I still see him coming home Lord
Lord I see him coming home
His little sister was the witness
but she lost the will to speak

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from Love is Love, released June 27, 2016

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Paul Sachs New York, New York

Paul Sachs writes lyrical and gritty songs. Born and raised in New York City. Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and Springsteen are the songwriters that influenced him, and pushed him into the folk music circles of the city. In 2013 he won the New Folk Songwriter’s contest at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas. His new Cd, "My Favorite Season, is due in 2022 ... more

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