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Nervous Breakdowns
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Nervous breakdowns, constant shakedowns;
There are fewer of us, but we have less to lose.
Despairing hours, or a moment of power:
Tell me…which would you choose.
And the time keeps on ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking,
And every day feels the same.
Keep your distance at death’s insistence.
Hold your breath and watch truth die.
Schemes and ruses, scrapes and bruises:
Now we know who kept their powder dry.
And the time keeps on ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking,
And every day feels the same.
They’re watching me watching you watching us,
Taking liberties we’d left to rust.
When I see your blood, you’ll see my trust.
Suspicion showers, violence flowers,
And the meekest of us will pick a side.
Can’t you see how the troubles are here now?
And the future is no one’s to decide.
And the time keeps on ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking ticking,
And every day feels the same.
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Shoes on the table, coat on the floor.
Why bother to part your hair anymore
During this renegotiation
Of what counts as civilization?
You'll trouble the air in front of your mouth
Just to say that north is south
When scofflaws offer a dear reward
For going over overboard.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Making sense is my self-defense.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Got some passports for the kids.
Taught 'em that the meaning of is is is.
Said nothing is certain but that we love you.
Yes we are loving our children while you
Fold twenty dollar bills
To see the towers spill
In a bunker in the hills.
Counting backwards from nonzero
Reading poems to the mirror
Counting backwards from nonzero
Now the plot is getting clearer
Counting backwards from nonzero
My fulfillment drawing nearer
Counting backwards from nonzero
Everything I need is here
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Making sense is my self-defense.
Consequences, then we mend the fences.
Counting backwards from nonzero
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Fireworks
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Just to add a little something extra
How about some fireworks?
Never ending fireworks.
We wished it would come apart.
We wished and we wished
And then it did
And anything was possible
Good or bad.
And we looked inside ourselves because we had to
And there were fireworks
And butterflies
In the vast empty chasm
Where our character was supposed to be.
They should have a name
For the two weeks in between
The nineteenth of June
And the fourth of July.
Will there be fireworks
When we find a new way
Of doing things?
That’s what we’re doing, right?
Sketching it out?
Who’s really free?
I guess we’ll see.
Fireworks
Fireworks
Every day deserves fireworks
When you’re throwing away
What needed throwing away.
Independence day is the day in between
Something dying and something being born.
Everybody’s always taking all they can get
And the fishes always seem to swim right into their net
But they haven’t had an honest accounting yet.
Choices choices choices, please mind your voices.
We will be having fireworks.
Fireworks in a deeply breathing sky
Fireworks on a Saturday, the fourth of July.
Fireworks
Fireworks
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Disappearing Ink Baltimore, Maryland
New album 6/1/23 from Baltimore songwriter/producer Lawrence Lanahan's band Disappearing Ink! On The Charm of Abstraction, Lanahan abandons guitar for mesmerizing synths, intricately programmed beats, imaginative sampling, and occasional rhymes. Even with a new sound, his core songwriting voice--“melodic and lyrical invention,” “chilling chord progressions,” “rare honesty and power"- remains. ... more
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