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Tiny hands
So massive to the mother
Reaching in, begin to tend to this blessed event
Tiny nose
Poking through those cold bars
Learns a few brand new clues
From this girl's-eye view of first-time gerbil birth

Were you with her
As the mystery unraveled there?
Where she wondered
'Why do they bite the ones they bare?'

I know a girl
She's breeding four-legged beasts
Eight ain't enough but a dozen will do
She's ended with plenty beginning with two

From her dreams
She hears a stomach rumble
Up and dressed, she cannot rest when a pet's distressed
From the cage
Can she hear their whispers?
Were a man to understand would he hear a plan
That plots a Great Escape?
Now or never
She's cracked their codes and broke their will
Will she ever run out of funds to keep the young filled?

I know a girl
She's feeding four-legged beasts
A bit of a chef but her shift never ends
Never a leftover left in their pens

An itch? She knows why
A whine? She knows which
I fail to understand why they would defy the touch of Andy's hand
But still they scurry fast away
She once hit the wild and soothed a savage beast each time she smiled
And for an instant, Man and Animal were nearly friends

I wanna be just like those lucky others
I wanna be her guinea pig but I'm just too big
I wanna see her eyes in vast proportion
From the den of the rent-free pen she would keep me in
If I were trimmed with fur
"Grrrrowl!"- I'll have to practice to convince
But will she keep me perpetually fed and pet in my fence?

I know a girl
She's breeding four-legged beasts
Eight ain't enough but a dozen will do
She's ended with plenty beginning with two
A bit of a chef but her shift never ends
Never a leftover left in their pens

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from Greenway Park, released June 9, 1999

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D.M. Franklin Kane Chapel Hill, North Carolina

"Up, Alive!" is the latest collection of songs from North Carolina's D.M. Franklin Kane.

This is Kane's first full-length release since 2014's "The Hard Truth."

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