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Ghosts Before Breakfast

by Slumplifter

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1.
there's a man on the edge of town. unemployed & disavowed blood pressure too high to count - bored / bald & blanking out! tinned soup in the microwave - doesn't mind the minute wait. doesn't go to bed too late. (layin low & playing straight) just a bucketful of barely there spilling over the sides there's nothing happening everywhere... throw me over the sides! his best friend is an alibi anxious again (and he don't know why!) a face fixed to the tv guide helps him feel anaesthetised beach house on the stereo (somebody's sayin something) neighbours keep it turned down low (i wanna hear you saying something) he's got no other place to go (stop! sing me something!) doesn't move him anymore... don't run. just a bucketful of barely there spilling over the sides there's nothing happening everywhere... throw me over the sides! well - boy - don't you know? you're unique. you're nothing different. back to work! live your dreams! expire silently. just a bucketful of barely there spilling over the sides there's nothing happening everywhere... throw me over the sides!
2.
let's all pay our stately dues: a sacrificial lamb or two, a hundred million tributes piled high and while i slave and toil a rose has sprouted from the soil too glorious for this poor boy to hide all hail her style & grace the way she walks while standing in place oh! what a delicate thing! it's a pleasure indeed but it remains to be seen... if our puppet's an authentic human being i'm a humble serf who serves his lord i haven't an inspired thought! (but i can rest, assured, that nor do you) and still! some stare down their nose they dare to say it's all for show i'm blinded but i know it can't be true! ba ba ba ba ba... i hate it when i smudge my ink i like my thickshake not too thick i like it when my music's not too loud and now i'm giving in... yielding to the common din my only whim's to blend within the crowd. all hail her style & grace the way she moves while standing in place oh! what a delicate thing like a twig in the wind such a precious machine it's a pleasure, indeed but it remains to be seen... if our puppet's an authentic human being!
3.
Lotus V 02:24
it's a fallen state of mind i'm in to sing alone tonight of civil conversationings that set my mind alight someone's sighing through the door a joke i've never noticed stop me if you've heard this one! are you laughing with me, lotus? there's a broke&busted tambourine that lays upon my knee you're the solitary thing that stands me on my feet you're singeing both my eyebrows with a gaze that softly smoulders... you'll talk of minutes meaningless. i could talk forever lotus (let's drink to awkward passingsby a drink to all missed moments hmm... sha la la. could i be more subtle, lotus??)
4.
sun scales the morning sky for the birds to breathe in tune every day: he wakes in a state of someday soon learnt quickly to doubleguess every word in his brain can't help feeling so undressed so undersized. so unimpressed. exercising his selfcontrol everyone's just talk talk talk there he goes! drowning his debts in black dog scotch halfhearted and bleeding lead - thickstuck in his veins who said you'd go on like this? you'll hit the high - it's enough! come on! take that godgiven rest from a life of perfect suspense. someone, somewhere, remembers you best - goodbye, mr sunset! chest kickin around his throat window shopping in the evening streets. heading home: waving at everyone he meets spent years trying to suppress that ache that nobody knows who said you'd go on like this? you'll hit the high... it's enough. come on! take that godgiven rest from a life of perfect suspense. someone, somewhere, remembers you best - goodbye, mr sunset! the long walk up those endless steps toe after toe after toe after toe who said you'd go on like this? (god help the man who can't help himself) you'll hit the high. it's enough! come on! take that godgiven rest from a life of perfect suspense. someone, somewhere, remembers you best - goodbye, mr sunset! the briefest chance you'll ever collect to know what's coming up next! someone, somewhere, remembers you best - goodbye! mr sunset!
5.
i freeze / you froze don't you know the bitter cold? hey! i'll say you gotta agree you're barkin up a fallen tree (and you're not lonely til you know you're free) i spin / you spun hell, you call this having fun? this conversation's wearing thin. we barely rise above the din! (it's like a handshake with a phantom limb) the little things, this & that. i can't expect... i've all the time i know i'll have before i'm dead. i'm all a disarray! if i could disarray! somebody disarray... i come / you go stop & start & yes & no these petty games of let's pretend are sharpening my nerve's dead ends (and your behaviour is your own to defend) i won't / you will someone's gotta split the bill no need for looking so forlorn - you'll step out on the kerb & be reborn (you know, there's nothing wrong with counting score!) fresher air! it's sterile here. you can't predict. i've all the time i know i'll have before i'm dead i'm all a disarray. if i could disarray... somebody disarray!
6.
well, morning flashed before my eyes left me stranded in its wake i'm feeling overhypnotised, too outerspace to mark my place. these ghosts, i knew so well when i was young of paradise, i've seen the setting sun be warned! watch out! i've only just begun - it's not so bright now and my changing's done. this stone's been thrown. this die's been cast. i've hedged my secondguess this orbit's spinning much too fast for me to stop and catch my breath oh, this old milky way i used to trust - can only sit so comfortably in rust (excuse me while my delusions dry to dust) it's not so bright now let my eyes adjust! please tell my friends / contacts: i won't be seeing them. as i raise my face to greener fields a weight lifts from my brow. i'll get there fairly soon, i feel (just something that i know, somehow) the colours of the sky, i see, have blurred as a busker walks along on down the road it's just some country song i swear i've heard and it's not so bright now: my point of no return it's not so bright now and it's of no concern

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released September 20, 2016

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