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magicfish

from Cardboard Wings by Birdlips

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Well I'll tell you what I do remember
Waking up to circling sharks
Wipe the vomit off my lips
Stumble out from pounding dark

An 8am sun stings my eyes
Searching for a taxi cab
I'm lost and long un-tucked and dry
Wondering how I paid my tab

A morning drifter passes out
Sells his color to the night
Herds the Metro's own devout
Around his sty and drunk delight

And I just look the other way
Sailing back to bars and clubs
Swigging liquor from my coat
Casting nets and cigarette stubs


"Flounder, flounder in the sea,
Come, I pray thee, here to me.
I need someone to help me see
The beauty that's escaping me."


Find a woman, set me straight
Help me lift this ugly weight
For my body is a shell to fill
And it wills not as I'd have it will

So once again I cast my nets
Fishing for a foreign love
But expectations never please
And my catch is nothing much to speak of

Gorgeous girls burn pocket holes
For play-school cash and costly change
Falling out in conversation
I'm rattling empty, thin and strange

And in my head a tiny voice
The indiscriminate Taster's Choice
Says:

Was I not born with all I need?
Was I not God all along?
Indulging in my lust and greed,
Make-believing right and wrong?


"Flounder, flounder in the sea,
Come, I pray thee, here to me.
I need someone to help me see
The beauty that's escaping me."


This excess lives on tiny scales
Any thrill is just a tease
Cuz expectations never please
Even when they're on their knees

And I'm on my knees

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from Cardboard Wings, released February 12, 2008

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