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21
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I’ll be an installation conversation piece and you’ll wrap your words around me
Sit me at the bar I want a front row seat
to the art house jam where we kick up our feet
It’s really not me
I’m sorry to give up so easily.....
it’s not our fight
I think I’ll leave tonight
It always takes me two then I sort myself out
Words come together where my brain calms down
It’s not the circus of the world
It’s all in my mind
Wishing i was quicker
That I was unkind
If I procrastinate then it’ll serve my right
Wasting away on the dock all the time
Public indecency is better with whiskey
But I imagine I could die right here.
Pretty content if the sky’s stayed clear
Wind me up then give me the wire
I’ll punch tickets I’ll sell them myself
And the people are great even if you aren’t great but if you manage to escape
They’ll plan your birthday
Sing me the song oh please get t done
I’m not ready to be twenty one
I was born helpless and they gave me the world
I’ll sink to the bottom
Mamas little girl was never gone
Was never here
Was only old enough to drink this year
What a joke
I hardly laughed
I set aside a toothbrush and some cash
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flesh on trial
04:05
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Late as the day, it’s a slow cooker
Fell asleep with the light in my eyes
Anxiously awaiting- just a little while
Boredom takes hold
To see my flesh on trial
Instead im trapped in the blinds of my window
Looking out on to what the day holds
Everything is fragrant then, waiting on the mailman to take me away
I can assure you im a go getter
If I get up from this chair then ill have a million dollars
Ill go out on the bowery via bold st
Wear nothing but my ego and a five quid bedsheet
You get to see my flesh on trial
You get to see my best for a while then it’ll go
Give me something official then sign it like a letter
Be my part time notary and part time lover
Experience me like an animal at the zoo
You’ll take half of me and then ill give the other half to you
And you get to see my flesh on trial
You get to see my best for a while then it’ll go
Write it off as payment for the streetwise sentiments you leave me
Im so grateful for the uneasiness I feel all the time
Stick it in your coat shove it down their throats its the last great word on your tongue
And remarkably nobody cares but you and I
you and I
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