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Is Similar To

by David Brown

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1.
Sea-Saw 05:47
Sea-saw friends raise up your hands Count yourself present Pretend to understand I need to say something to convince you to stay I’m lonely here still I thought it would go away Take a look at my cards Take a glance if you’d like The spread’s painted black All the heroes took flight They felt they’d fit better elsewhere on the map But they’re all on their own And there’s no doubting that I can feel you when I’m dreaming I know this must sound like a lie Bolt upright with the dawn It’s the start of the day at the end of the night Sea-saw friends training for death Shouting mixed messages and losing their breath I need to say something but the vacuum’s too strong The sound would go nowhere to no one at all
2.
Take your pictures down to the picture framing store And on the way forgive your enemies Ya know ya got em Buddy please I hear the past is oh so attractive If you try to recall it at all But I’ve got better vliewscreens to stare at I’m in touch all the time Won’t you drop me a line? New earth green seas The flags all drag the floor But you can wander this old world Just like you’ve dreamed before I look out my window each day for years and years It never gets old (trust me) But each and every career I try does Oh, what a drag today I say most days But you know I’m lying or bending truths I must admit that I will get a kick if I try New earth green seas The flags all drag the floor But you can wander this old world Just like you’ve dreamed before
3.
You made it through I was brought here on my own Against my will I’m not trying to be your equal Oh no no Oh no no Oh no no I’m here to learn How to weave these tattered remnants Into tourniquets for bleeding out and bandages for burns Show me I can feel everything now and I’m certain of it You were made of gold and I of brass Which one is stronger? Which one will last? Show me A fifty foot flag is flapping at half staff And when the wind stops blowing it will just be dragging the ground Yes, sounds about right And we’ll be dodging a color-coated cat of nine tails Whose ends are poisoned by debris We never were quite dodging with our feet Oh, how nice Are you going to the polls today, my friend? Well, have your ID ready Pay your fines and buy a sitter for your baby And take the bus to where you’re going Pull that lever, honey Its echo on the walls: your voice Reverberating until it doesn’t and then you leave We could buy expensive lunches after Talk about things we’ve seen on screens Now deep red laughter coats your walls It’s all we have it seems Advancing worlds weave cosmic dream An electric time
4.
Here are some of my things I’d like to know what you think Even though I won’t blink Doesn’t men you can’t control anything When you speak Just because you’re asleep That doesn’t mean that you’re dreaming It’s only blankness you see Before you slide into dreams, hopefully sweet And say goodbye to your worries So you can walk through those trees Say goodbye to your troubles Ice will melt fire will freeze Freeze Just because you’re not home That doesn’t mean I don’t wish I were there There’s nothing better to see alone Perched high on my stairs They’re my own I’ll say goodbye to me worries So we can walk through those trees Say goodbye to my troubles And if you’re patient with me you’ll see
5.
Ever hear a live wether report from a city on the other side of the world? You get up You leave your chair You go to the window It’s right over there Compare and contrast Compare and contrast I guess I’m living alright That’s what I say if they ask Compare and contrast Compare and contrast I guess I’m living alright That’s what I say if they ask Ever read a page in a book from a shelf in a building you’ve been too before? And wonder if someone in some other place Is just sitting ‘round lonely and they’re doing the same? Under a different mayor At a different latitude But everybody’s got the same bad attitude Nothing really matters so who really cares? That’s what they’re chanting as society’s descending the stairs Compare and contrast Compare and contrast I guess I’m living alright That’s what I say if they ask Compare and contrast Compare and contrast I guess I’m living alright That’s what I say if they ask Alright, your uncle’s a creep And your grandpa’s insane But they’re not off the hook just cause they learned it that way Your body gets baggy and your brain does too But your mentality keeps growing It’s all up to you Compare and contrast Compare and contrast I guess I’m living alright That’s what I say if they ask Compare and contrast Compare and contrast I guess I’m living alright That’s what I say if they ask
6.
What can I do for you? That’s why you’re calling We’re either oceans apart or we’re all in Cut to the chase, my man Lie you cut to the heart I lit a final cigarette by the park bench Slightly ceremonial, I’d say, unless my guard’s down And I could hang it all out honest It was mostly routine There was a concentrated circle of friends But the honor of the cavalry has come to an end You say you’re tasting bitterness I’m bunking in confectionaries now I’ve heard you bellowing Head in the stock But I’ve never held the keys to the pillory locks You’re screaming in a voice that don’t belong to you Indiscriminately cardinal intermediate North and south same as east to you I’ve never had opinions about what you should do We’re not a team my man One and one not two Your mother says that you’re blessed But that ain’t something she can prove Do you want to go west? Is that what the lore of your heroes suggests? If destiny is real, go on manifest I wonder who’s ambitions you’ll devour and digest along the way Well I know that we could pivot Turn the cannons on me But I’m the one who’s singing so I’m the one who’ll be Stenographer, judge, the entire jury But I’ll leave the execution to you A reassessment’s in order, it seems Oh I wonder how I ever thought we shared any dreams Cause we never shared the spoils The badges were imaginary Okay, I see, you got me
7.
The Sunflowers are all gone The Palm’s been taken inside The Frost is coming tonight But for now the sun shines bright For now the grass grows green And every single singer of every song agrees
8.
A little paper psalm A litany to the end 15th of October The new Ambrosian hymn A lesson from the apocalypse recited by heart A picnic basket A modern work of art And it’s all a bit different on the weekdays Candy-colored hymnals and chocolate-covered hymns Your vocal chords are worth a million dollars We’ll pretend You wait to shout the signals the angels will project Straight to Saint Benedict, their Earthly architect And it’s all a bit different on the weekdays Your words are all so meaningless Your melodies all the same You never found a system to believe in or to claim So you’re searching like the rest of us But want the world to know You’re gardening for gardening’s sake You sow and sow and sow And it’s all a bit different on the weekdays
9.
Used Guitars 02:52
Hands on the fretboard but they’re not the first Eyes on the right looking own to the left Like those eyes from the past did before Used guitars You lay down in the car You’re asleep in the house You’ve had nightmares of grey hairs And red carpet arsonists Dreams that you’re changing the strings Of used guitars Well I know that we’re all part of some vast continuum That doesn’t keep us from being so bored We stare at the walls and and gaze at the floor And we mindlessly strum the same chords On used guitars All the greatest theories in the world came from nobody around here All the children in the street, they look happy Happy from a distance Playing jacks with the poets in the gutter Not an officer in sight All the neighbors say they won’t amount to nothing But nothing is alright for the kids with the cigarettes and the used guitars Used guitars
10.
Oh the summertime is coming And the leaves are sweetly turning And the wild mountain thyme Blooms across the purple heather Will you go, Lassie go? If you will not go with me I will surely find another To pull wild Mountain Thyme All across the purple heather Will you go, lassie, go? And we'll all go together To pull wild Mountain Thyme All across the purple heather Will you go, lassie, go? Let me be your one light And if you'd like a true heart Take the time to show you're mine And I'll be a blue moon in the dark While you sleep you'll see me there Clouds race across the sky Close your eyes and don't ask why And I'll be a blue moon in your eyes Morning comes and sleeping's done Birds sing outside If demons come while you're under I'll be a blue moon in the sky

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