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Deer of Bergen

from Deer Friends by The 117s

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Two figures dance across the street, as white as ghosts
under the shade of trees torn down years ago
Wandering up the avenue, where cars careen around the turn,
looking for a grove they know,
a lesson hard to learn

For albino deer in Bergen
on a county highway curb
It was never even their intention to move out to the burbs
They know where they’re going: some emerald field in South Jersey,
but they often change directions, they second-guess their journey

His body hit the windshield like an asteroid in space
A stag the brown of summer fell, a pale one took his place
who all the drivers, terrorized, will stop and let pass on
The grandly-antlered poltergeist, a woodsy old man with a safety vest on

The albino deer of bergen cross the street beside the lake
They didn’t bring their passes but they pass between the gates
The fauns all hit the beach and play some tag along the shore
The parents take their walk and wonder what the fence is for

A doe beneath the power lines
thinks of the home she's missed
They’d meet up at the edge of town,
but the edge does not exist
There’s a reservation about 15 miles west,
but there’s no way she could know that,
and south’s her greatest guess

An albino deer in Bergen,
reclining on my lawn,
watching the trees wondering when she should move on
Her coat as white as a piece of the moon that fell to Earth
Her eyes recall the time when crying wouldn’t hurt

An albino deer in Bergen
disappears between the trees,
a final verdant vestige of the place this used to be
Like a line of hairs along a busy person’s face
Tomorrow, clean shaven,
gone without a trace

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from Deer Friends, released May 15, 2018
Music & Lyrics by Zack Eydenberg

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The 117s Gambier, Ohio

The 117s are a band from Kenyon College in Gambier, OH

Zack Eydenberg
Nick Navari

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