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She pulled every string
from your heart up through the neck
at the head of her hummingbird Epiphone.
A bead of sweat hanging from her nose alone.
Electric tape covering her toes.
What those feet had kicked no one knows.
She just killed the murder ballad
Nailed it and then hung it from a tree
Anyone who walks that path
can hear its bloody melody
Junkies in her songs
playing blackjack through the night
with hockey cards subbing for the lost.
That dirty low-down view was not without a cost.
She fluttered on the high notes in a way
that when scooping out the lows she made you pay
Like falling off a log
the song's protagonist
wound up slitting their sleeping lover's throat
to save them from a fate that wouldn't float.
The living lover sunk into despair.
The no-longer-living lover filled the air
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Halloween Rockeretta
06:33
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On Halloween, 1 box of costume - mother said.
Kids are mean it's safe to here assume - mother said.
On Halloween, Bozo's in his winter coat
A husky tween his candy made him miss the boat
It's like you read. You're mother said.
He had a heart attack but with fewer years on his back
Before the ticker went south
before the Nicorette in his mouth
Yeah yeah yeah no one was laughing
wipe that look off your face
Yeah yeah yeah no one was laughing
Hail Mary full of Grace
hallelujah
There's a point where loneliness burns your face
Blushing like we're in disgrace
It burns your face.
No one is laughing now. No one.
I got a message from you
From down a deep dark river
I'd never been to
I got a message a message from you
When that message got through
In a high ho silver
And be bop a loo
I got a message
I got the message from you
You were union hating men
With boot straps high
Nobody helped you when
You were too low to try
Off the line. Off a straight and narrow line. Let it shine.
We're here to try again
To pick it up
And to begin
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Peffer Park
04:30
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A drummer’s girl from a river town
met his drums and moved on down.
A med assistant to pay her way
with horror stories from work that day
Rolling through the dark of Peffer Park
I’m out of your mind
And I’m out of mine
Boomers on a summer night
In a graveyard laughing at the sight
That boy had disappeared from you
You whispered what I had wondered too
Rolling through the dark of Peffer Park
I’m out of your mind
And I’m out of mine
I remember by Pentothal
And I regret it all
Rolling through the dark of Peffer Park
I’m out of your mind
And I’m out of mine
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Where Are You Now
04:35
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Where are you now
There’s was a passing phase
Left wandering lost among the weeds
Where are you now
What weighed on our days
Sun has bleached to white and now recedes
Slender hopes must cling
to you
Where are you now
Momentary as a sound
Swift as swallows darkening a dream
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Charity Barnum
04:12
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You were not allowed
You were a long way from the short list
Like Charity
Charity Barnum
Married to the circus drum
Elephants whipped to bow
And head bumping with phrenologists’
Clarity
Like Charity Barnum
Buried with an outstretched Thumb
I’m like the father
I’m like the son
I’ve had and I’ve been both and none
I’ve had to wonder
What deal had you made
To stand in that monkey’s shade
You are among the freaks
In a parade of little horrors
Like Charity
Charity Barnum
Watch the kingdom come
I’m like the father
I’m like the son
I’ve had and I’ve been both and none
I’ve had to wonder
What deal had you made
To stand in that monkey’s shade
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Brian Stevens New Milford, Connecticut
I am an alien that was sent to earth to study humans and report my findings to minister Zolumb on the planet Yat. To fit in with other middle aged men in my area, I took up pretending to make music. Enjoy.
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