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Violet Tab

by Joey Cape


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Tonight the drunks are infected

          
We're on our way

               
As if they drop by to see me 

      
Un-invit-ed

               
And I am a wallflower

         
Maybe a better father

        
This is a job

              
For seconds I miss the Bentleys

                  
Today, maybe they'll call

            
You describe every prison

                   
You pass through them all

                    
Then he asked you for your head

                       
And I vowed to burn your bed

                        
Try to pretend but this is your life

       
Somehow it feels right


I'm calling this evolution


I'm falling for institution

                         
Warm submission enveloping you


Tomorrow I'll survive the questions


Knives buried with cold indifference

                           
My world is true. Rendered by you.

             
Here they come again

                          
I could never find the words

                            
So I disguised them in verse

                             
Until it comes out dumb and wrong

                 
The simplest song 

           
If you sing along

                                                        
Marry me Kristen, marry me Kristen; I want to be the only one


I'm painting a revolution


I'm falling for institution

                          
Warm colours enveloping blue


Shot of comfort in a warm convention


Medicinal injection

                        
Thirty-six years ended by you

                  
Tonight the drunks are infected

          
We're on our way
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