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Memphis

from This is Ours by Alex da Ponte

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We bump elbows and shoulders, wear smiles and frowns, skate the homemade halfpipe on the edge of midtown. Nothing but cement to break your fall, so you stay up when you can, shut your eyes and call, “this is our town”

We got a fire inside us
Ooh, ooh, ooh

The grittiest people in the grizzliest town, the bluffs rise up but they don’t back down.
It’s this place versus everybody else. Spit out blood, take a hit in the mouth but you’re still on your feet, still on your feet in the mighty south

We got a fire inside us
Ooh, ooh, ooh

Welcome to the hurt
Welcome to the noise, welcome to Memphis, boys.

Grin and slap hands with the boys on Vance, always jay walking and barely wearing pants,
The kids riding trikes in the street are careless and free, even now I can hear them sing, This is our town

We got a fire inside us
Ooh, ooh, ooh

We got a fire inside us
Ooh, ooh, ooh

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from This is Ours, released July 22, 2019

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Alex da Ponte Memphis, Tennessee

It’s no easy thing to pin down something as mercurial as a memory, as fleeting as a feeling, with nothing more than mere words. To distill a life down to its essence and capture it in song. But to singer/songwriter Alex da Ponte, such an act comes naturally. Alex da Ponte is a poet’s songwriter. ... more

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