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You’ve got an in-law apartment
in the mother of all states.
Right back where you started;
maybe this is what it takes.
You’ve got crippling debt,
reason to be upset,
and the right to believe that order
is just around the corner
Strange how city life beat you down:
estranged, but in range, in the ex-urbs.
There’s nothing for it now
except to be near enough ears to get heard
But I am always here to listen,
if that’s not been clear through omission.
I am, by my own admission,
terrible at telling you that
I am always here to listen
if that’s not been clear through omission
I am, by my own admission,
terrible at this shit.
All of us must suffer falls
coming out parties suck
debutante balls
matriculate like mine-bound canaries
feel older daily and wiser rarely
Oh, Old Dominion
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USA vs POR
01:00
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Flock to the bar for USA vs POOR.
I’m not surprised anymore.
Let’s take it to the wall.
What’s the goal?
The informal polls show
escapist papists taken by a landslide, so
the workaday proles are go
(never go-go-ing gone).
It won’t be long now.
Everyone loses:
they call it a draw.
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Panel of Experts
02:46
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She puts on a good show; hung/juried on conjecture
by people who should know, by a panel of experts
How can she expect anyone to respect her
when she exhibits no class, but always stays for a lecture?
Oh Maryanne,
they've all got you in the palm of their hands,
you're wrapped round the fingers of total strangers
so tight, you're bound to lose again
I just hope she makes the most of her neurosis:
dosin' it out, devoted to social Go Fish
At least keep it sharp and know how to use it.
But remember where it's hid, and you're sure gonna lose it.
Oh I can't stop
you and your friends playing bad cop/worse cop.
Tilting vicious and pretty in your surrogate city,
a well-oiled scene of machine cogs.
O! Freshmen,
so mean, and can't see the end.
Keep it sharp,
know how to use it.
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Ben Moy Warren, Rhode Island
Worker, brother, husband, father making music in Sowams.
Christians & Lions, Bent Shapes,
Girlfriends, The Lido Venice, very early Receiving End of Sirens, etc.
"...one of these enviable characters who can thrive in all styles of music" - Motif Magazine, 2019
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