August 2022
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I Didn’t Take It Down
Promised you would love me more than any other man the time you said it first, and we made love in your bed you’re gonna have to trust me on it, sometimes you forget ’cause I didn’t take it down no, I didn’t take it down. Years now, I’m agonizing over the painting you made…
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Ask For Me
If you go down to the bar, looking for a love song, They tell you I’m the one you need to see. So, come here to my corner, pop a quarter in my heart, They were right when they told you to ask for me. ‘Cause you been working hard all day – just let…
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Crazy As a Good Thing
No-one thinks that you’re a good find My friends all think that you’re from Hell But I don’t think that you’re a bad find Though you are probably from Hell We all think you’re crazy And they Love to tell me so But I can’t see that as a bad thing My friends say I’m…
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Counting
I spent 8 hours driving yesterday seems only 4 spent moving I spent since Friday on the road and roaring and since this morning I’ve been stalled it’s been 4 days since I last touched these strings that momentum could be hard to break I spend so much time so crunched up and cramped I…
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Common
Look at them all cautious now Every one a wallflower stone You & I we’re dangerous Coveted unknowns But take them by the eyes like this And make them understand “I’m here for you & only you” darling till I pass there’s nothing to be said for waiting there’s nothing to be said for standing…
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Choke Cherry
One more toy to take they say it will not hurt him they say they will treat him Lovingly but they stay to suck the joy from him suck it down suck it down suck it down the way you finish fruit it always leaves you hungry One more toy for the boy it’s one…
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Chalk Pit
Chalk another up to the disbelievers I’ve got no time for statistics or numbers with the rapists and redrums and the duldrums being dulled down by prison guards, prison wards, lasers, tasers, drugs and dogs I’m not so sure we’re taking the time for anything genuine in the form of repentance, Love or God and…
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Bulldozer
Oh those men they frighten me with their talk of cars and guns and I was hoping you might comfort me with sense and eyes and skin breathing is the moment it’s the moment caught inside of you it’s the purging of the past so when I lie beside you breathing the moment’s all I…
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Bearclaw’s Mule
this city is built on the ashes of rats you can grind them underfoot if you wish thanks for the warning but I think I’ll stay I sit back and sprawl and stare at it all a curtain in breeze it blocks me I turn away from the window with its lights and its gutters…
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Baliset
I’m headed for the rocks again Silent all the way Oh to go my mother’s way Screaming all the while By now I know I’ll take anything Any given chance My fear is I’ll take everything and leave no one left standing But Oh my queen my wife You won’t get a piece of me…