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Don ‘Lefty’ Williams, and Errol Elumir - Cathedral Steps

from 13​,​760 Feet - My Personal Hole in the Sky by A TWA Flight 800 Memoir by Mark L Berry

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Companion Song: 13,760 Feet - My Personal Hole in the Sky
Chapter 35 – My Vanilla Sky (with WSCS)

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Cathedral Steps - lyrics


Sitting on cathedral steps
Self-medicating from a flask
Why did this have to happen?
Is that so much to ask?

Sitting out another sermon
Drinking away another day
Can’t look at New York City
And see things the same old way

9-11 are just numbers
Carved on stones, the numbers of the dead
9-11 are just numbers
But they burn, they burn inside my head
9-11 are just numbers
Carved on stones, the numbers of the dead

Too many of my friends
Are parked below those stones
But their boxes are really empty
There’s nothing left—no flesh or bones

Can’t say goodbye
To an empty box
And so I’m sitting here
’cause sometimes life just sucks
and now I’m waiting for hope to appear
when will hope come meet me here?

9-11 are just numbers
Carved on stones, the numbers of the dead
9-11 are just numbers
But they burn, they burn inside my head
9-11 are just numbers
Carved on stones, the numbers of the dead

Tomorrow the same thing
And more and more each day
Funerals never ending
The priests are out of things to say

Sitting on cathedral steps
Self-medicating from a flask
Why did this have to happen?
Is that too much to ask?

Sitting out another sermon
Drinking away another day
Can’t look at my city
And see things the same old way

9-11 are just numbers
Carved on stones, the numbers of the dead
9-11 are just numbers
But they burn, they burn inside my head
9-11 are just numbers
Carved on stones, the numbers of the dead

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from 13​,​760 Feet - My Personal Hole in the Sky, track released September 28, 2013
Words by Mark L Berry
Music by Don ‘Lefty’ Williams
Performed by Don ‘Lefty’ Williams, and Errol Elumir

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Mark’s an airline pilot with an MFA from Fairfield University, author of a memoir and two novels, contributing editor for Airways magazine, and former managing editor for Mason's Road literary journal. His work has also appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and newspapers. He lives in St. Louis, MO near the big staple in the middle of the USA map. Locals call it: The Arch. ... more

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