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from Old Blood by Mayday

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lyrics

Look here little man
You’ve seen every square of this town
This whole town has seen you
Schlepping around like some kind of junky desperado

Searching for inspiration
waiting on inspiration

You might wait all night
For your little dog to come home
Bruised and battered
Timid of your shaking hands

One job to the next
One girl to the next
One home to the next
Paycheck to hand to mouth to paycheck
The pains are temporary
The pleasures are temporary

One dive to the next
You argue art and sustenance
Language is temporary
Flesh is temporary
Substance is temporary

(ergo)

There is no rhythm or cadence
Unbeknownst to this centrifugal
Transfer of heat and momentum
We are just honeybees and pistons
(At the height of some age of decadence)

If there is some perpetual season
Sustaining such flagrant expression
Bright dresses shaking round with hips and asses
A bonfire in our chest claims

A blur of vague formation
A lub dub blood pulsation

Like glorified organisms
In their own enchantments
Know only the rights of this metered season
With the closest blunted object administer a tempo

A blur of vague formation
A lub dub blood pulsation

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from Old Blood, released May 6, 2002

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