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Jailbird
05:19
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Oh jailbird, I wonder if you heard
They're planning your release now
Oh ghost man, they'll take you by the hand
And show you all of NorCal
They're carving up your face
Bright colors and taste
So someone can make
A word upon a page
Norman Mailer, abrasive and absurd,
Is running the trains now
In the jailyard visited by a bird
He'll kiss you on the cheek now
Carving in your face
Little fucking creep
Moving in your sleep
They're gonna have to wait
Waiting for you
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Arrested
03:53
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Went down to the station 'cause they told you to
Arrested for something that you didn't do
P.O. waiting for you in the other room
Hey, pretty person with a point of view
We've been dying, dying to get in touch with you
There's a place for your buddies on the evening news
Acting like people with a point to prove
And somewhere there's a perfect metaphor for you
Two hundred-story buildings wearing sequined shoes
Or three bottles of liquor in a tipped canoe,
Lonely operator with the radar blues
Met her down in Old San Juan eating clementines
Beautiful scenery she doesn't mind
Carrying a beige tote bag full of light supplies
It's hard to figure out who to trust sometimes
Met him down in San Marino eating propofol
Beautiful buildings, he owns them all
Threading through a silver machine filled with aniline
It's impossible to slip between the lines
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Half asleep
They'll have you if you're live or dead
Delirious, subsisting on air
Being dragged along with the crowd
Into the bondage of the workhouse:
A machine built to terrify
And cut limbs off the brain-damaged
As penance for your whole life of
Wanton irresponsibility
Your hand is pulled
Into the blades
Onlookers laugh
In ecstasy
No one is held
Responsible
Besides yourself
It's just as well
You've been so careless, careless
Prepare for the pain
Careless, careless
It's coming again
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Philadelphian guitarist, songwriter & home recordist, in order of adoption.
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