You cry enough to make me think you're human.
You cry enough to make me think you're alive.
Pull yourself together and push back your hair.
Take off your clothes and go sit in the chair-
there's no need to stare down, self aware.
You're so concerned, it's a wonder you survive.

Don't let them tell you it's evil.
Don't let them tell you it's not okay.

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Where Ma Raney and Beethoven once unwrapped their bed roll
Tuba players now rehearse around the flagpole
And the National Bank at a profit sells road maps for the soul
To the old folks home and the college.

Now I wish I could write you a melody so plain
That could hold you dear lady from going insane;
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According to the most recent intelligence, I got in. I mean IN.

I am embarassed to say what I want.

All the life-lessons that I have learned from mistakes I made all on my own are better summed up in spineless books and 22 minute tv shows than by any description I myself could render here. I apologize for all my -------- and I am sorry that it is not so original so as to require its own unique description. ( Read more... )

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Interesting.

Woman All Alone:

The 30’s, the Dustbowl. Oklahoma. Flat, dry plains; arid. A sack lying idly at a woman’s feet on a dirt road. She stands still, painfully so: posing in such a way as to perfectly convey her total agony.

The crop went bad back home, the money dried up like the fields, and the wind kicked up the dirt and drove families from ( Read more... )

I have had a terrible epiphany about Fenchurch. And my Fenchurch. And why knowing about it is so damn terrible. And why I should have seen this so much sooner than this.

I'm the singer, I'm the singer in the band ( Read more... )

The idea of ownership is a powerful one. My jacket: I paid for it and it is a part of my personal wardrobe. I, therefore, own it. It is mine and nobody else’s. My shoes I did not pay for, but they were given to me so that I might wear them, and they are thusly mine. If someone were to walk off with the shoes that I wore today I would be at least ( Read more... )