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Unwillingly Absorbing All This

from The Circulatory Chaotic by a brown leaf

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The radio poured motor oil on the floor
You sopped and mopped it up with your shirt
Because another corporate stain translates to new social gain
And you can show all of your friends how much you’re worth

You breathed in the smoke when the stereo broke
As your fad-thirsty blood was running thin
But the records still played on in your brain train wrong from wrong
As the opiate amplifiers win


You ask me what the hell
Is a fucking villanelle?
Please tell me please it will get me high
And I lit up with a smoke
As I couldn’t find a joke
And a shaking, steady hand waved you goodbye.


You won’t see me as only your bird can sing
I’m going nowhere man looking through you
If I needed someone, wait, in my life to lacerate
My value, think for yourself before you do


Because I’ve known some people who’ve
Felt compelled to tell the truth
Maybe use a chord or two, I feel the same
As I did as a kid
Unwillingly absorbing all this shit
And I’m still asking who’ll stop the rain?


You need some reflection of yourself to tell you
That all your neighbors, strangers, friends think you’re cool

Well, southern man I hope you see
That there’s sparks inside of me
And they find contingency
In you fucking fools


So all your heroes wind up dead, chemically enhance their heads
As a fifth and a symphony slip away
You know right who you are, leave your soul slightly ajar
You never really needed it anyway

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from The Circulatory Chaotic, released April 18, 2007

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