Who writes songs
For the bankers and stock traders?
Who rhymes on behalf of negotiators?
What of the prattles and shakers of speculators?
Lately I've been having the strangest dreams.
I'm in the middle of the street
I'm rich and I'm naked
Adam naked.
Like the morning miracle
There was something in the air
I was awoken by fear.
Like the Emperor's New Clothes
Like an empty barber's chair
Save for a hair
I was barely even there
Like a painting upside down
Hanging on a wall that is bare
Turn it around
Don't just lie there.
So I got up
Feeling charmed by good luck
Squeezed the lemons
Quenched the demons
"The Mind will wander
The will to be too will be blocked
But don't let's not make a little more music"
Difficulties! Retreat! Retreat!
Return
-come again
Fuck up
and repeat
Defeat!
The demons and the skeletons
step behind and take a seat
Lately I've been making faces
Running over and over
all those blushing moments had
I remember the other day
Trying so hard to relay
it in words but I could hardly say
Another morning miracle
Another paralyzing fear
Another day
Another dollop
Another dentist-less year
Another self-destructive phase
Another ornamental tear
Down my face
Falling fast
Into my trappist beer
Another stanza on the page
In this barn-board café.
credits
from Pity Slash Love,
released May 7, 2013
Performed and recorded by Matt Smith.
Written by Matt Smith with Dayne Lunn.
supported by 8 fans who also own “Don't Let's Not Make Music”
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