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Understanding
03:13
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She’s a fine example, generous,
ample side to side and end to end.
Her lips move, forming shapes
in which her thoughts escape
my every ability to defend.
Familiar on the rare occasion
we dared excess libation
She rolled her eyes at me
as we sampled her fantasies
on the innocent couch of a friend.
We had an understanding
I didn't understand.
I had a destination, but
it was not my plan.
There might have been a what,
but there never was a when, ‘cause
we had an understanding
I just didn’t understand.
No call, no text, no email.
I feared hospital or jail,
but deep down I knew nearer.
A frown surprised me in the mirror.
Had I been a fool or just a bore?
Down on Charlemagne Street, thinking
in a dim bar with a sticky floor, drinking
and how it skews the field of play
and how much less I care, anyway
without her to even the score.
She had an understanding
I didn't understand.
I had a destination, but
there was no place to land.
There might have been a what,
but there never was a when, ‘cause
we had an understanding
I just didn’t understand.
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Preamble (extended)
03:07
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3. |
It All Gets Done
04:33
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Where Is The Door
03:53
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So you’re back with some jack about equality
in preservation of the myth of the land of the free.
You know it wears me out, this talking to the wall,
too deaf and blind to read the word or hear the call.
You got Fox News to tell you wrong from right:
nice house, nice wife, nice car, nice life.
Can’t argue with the willfully ignorant no more.
Listen, I gotta go. Where is the door?
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Take the Edge Off
02:39
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Numbing with appliances,
substances and fantasy;
but like a turtle on his back
having a heart attack
there ain’t no help for me.
Get myself a beer
to chase down that whiskey
along with these pills
up and down these God forsaken hills
Trying to take the edge off,
nothing seems to do the trick.
My head feels like a water balloon,
my heart feels like a brick.
Got to make some rules
and make ‘em stick.
I drive like a maniac downtown
cruise up and down the street,
check out the walk,
strut and talk,
all to some secret beat.
It’s maddening how
I can’t drive away from me
no matter how fast or far
I drive this car,
here I will always be.
Trying to take the edge off,
no distraction is enough.
My head is like an eggplant,
my heart just can’t.
Got to show them both who’s boss.
Got to get tough.
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Sarah Tonin
03:56
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Sarah Tonin
I hear you moanin’
Who is that you got upstairs?
Is you by yourself
or do you have some little elf
to help you stroke your shining hair?
Tomorrow mornin’
you heed my warnin’
better get your sassafras downtown.
Riding up your thigh,
Roy, done got so high,
guess you need the law laid down.
Allie tossed her salad just in time
Tess tossed her own
but I have mine.
Don’t be a dope, ah mean
let’s keep it clean.
Adrenanananananana
Adrenanananananana
Adrenananananananaline
I ain’t chronic,
Esther, gin my tonic
Sarah, she don’t have to know
Some may call it sick
say hyposecretion’s it
but den o’ pathos I surely do know
Sarah Tonin
stop all your groanin’
Don’t you know it’s down to me?
Order of occurrence
can make all the difference, but
this be our end o’ chronology.
I want to live, don’t want to die,
Allie sis-ter mine.
Say it is a lie.
Is our prose lackin’, or does it need redactin’?
ain’t got no time,
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