Name: your only crime
Duration: P00H02M51S
Description: If a man hits a woman in the course of a 'loving' relationship it is generally regarded as an inexcusable act of violence between two people. If a woman hits a man..? Well, then people ask you what you did to deserve it.

your only crime

by John Jackson

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If a man hits a woman in the course of a 'loving' relationship it is generally regarded as an inexcusable act of violence between two people. If a woman hits a man..? Well, then people ask you what you did to deserve it.

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love me always, with your body
with your heart, and your lips
and your arms and those fists

and your only crime
was loving too hard, too much of the time
and wasting away the prime of your life

get what you want
and get it when you need it
when the beast gets hungry
you know you feed it

and your only crime
was loving too hard, too much of the time
and wasting away the prime of your life

but love flew away, every time you flew into a rage
battering its wings against the bars of its cage

and your only crime
is loving too hard, too much of the time
and wasting away in the prime of your life

and if your only crime
was loving too hard too much of the time
then why am i right here wasting the prime of my life
oh, you just kind of wasted my precious time

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released June 6, 2021

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John Jackson Oxford, UK

Born in the broiling death-throes of the 1960s, the youngest of six Jacksons (variously destined to become academics, teachers, charlatans and psychopaths) I was, my mother said, accompanied by Donovan in the womb and born into Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel and Sgt Pepper. ... more

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