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Dead Lions

by Once and Future Kings

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1.
Twenty Watts 05:22
these gears turn in this pose seratonin runs low i fit and finger the fugue within i'm sold twenty watts, they say is, twenty watts is what the brain takes i must run on more with all these headaches i don't know how you put up with air conditioning it's hard living in the 21st censoring don't fall asleep at the wheel you're stuck in cruise control car alarms and body bombs and sirens fuel for the books the new city looks through my lens there in the sky do you see the red flags fly? "hold to the ropes that strangle your hopes," i sigh.
2.
this is a conversation in a mirror we might as well recycle the bill of rights this is a sobbing widow in the morning this is the look of an ocean in her eyes how did we get so high we turn opinions like we turn on dimes we are forgetting what we miss our purses on our lips biding time as we bite our tongues until the day we die how do we get around? nobody ever said as good as dead a revolution is easy but common sense or failing sense is getting us as far as it beats me adoring waves, i'm so beret've i read about this look in the papers a shower blamed a foggy pane don't get a face to close to razor how do we get around? how did we get so high that we succumbed to the lullabies from the purses on our lips the blisters from our kiss burst ouching as we bite our tongues until the day we die how do we get around?
3.
Say Hello 04:12
it is still winter here and the sun is treason it's so cold you would think we all smoke but say hello to the good times little girl cause they've never been so free run the hills climb the mountains and the trees as you hide and go seek soon enough they will make you dress up like the magazines they'll sell you voices who sing another's words like that means anything exceptions everywhere they became our beauty "the field is not so simple," i digressed. say hello to the good times little girl cause they've never been so free run the hills climb the mountains and the trees as you hide and go seek soon enough they will make you dress up like the magazines they'll sell you voices who sing another's words like that means anything
4.
stick together for the kids or they'll grow too fast they'll forget to laugh and what once was god will be the sea you never know if it will crash or go you see you call yourself a demigod you get what you see (it could kill someone) and it's too late to have a heart to have a heart the cutting was a factor you get what you bleed (it could kill someone) it's too late to have a heart to have a heart stick together for the kids or they'll grow too fast they'll forget to laugh
5.
test the waters put one foot in front of the other cameras on every corner a terrorist in every soldier yes sir yes sir oh yes sir i forgot i'm not a person yes sir yes sir oh yes sir
6.
This Goes On 03:28
since the great electricity scare i've been sitting alone in the dark on a lone central park bench amusing the homeless with my tales of sadness and sin about the global position and carbon emissions of this fabled nation of which i'm a citizen weather or not is no longer the question is it? this goes on this goes on this goes on this goes on this goes on this goes on so could we get your attention dear ladies and gentlemen it must be so hard from behind your white walls please excuse if i yell we're in need of some capitol help. and we refuse to stay quiet on tides high and higher or wait any longer to gasoline diet or fail to tell others to try to uncover the truth if this goes on if this goes on we'll see the sun and smile if this goes on if this goes on we'll see the sun and smile
7.
you wear a cracked mask like you've been hurt iron out the wrinkles in your golf game head i fast on pills and air i drink from a drip i.v. it's a cathedral but not like a church i hear the voices but i can't make out the verses write themselves i drink from a drip i.v.

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released April 30, 2011

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