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New Year Tab

by Thoushaltnot


Note: This is just what works for me on the accoustic.

Jinx (endless_text@yahoo.fr)

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It's a new year
                 
In an old house
                             
With more technology you'll never understand
                   
Break out your typewriter
                      
With your thees and thous
                              
Smearing old words with your old hands
                   
You'll call me Cassandra
                     
I'll call you King James
                               
And all we write is true. And all of it insane
                                                    
But the changing of the seasons will forever stay the same
     
You say


       
The infantry's retreating
           
Like they knew how this would end
         
Did you hear the Germans lost the war?
       
I bet they could use a friend
       
Right now supper's getting cold
       
Right now God is growing old
       
Right now dialect is evolving

Outside this house
            
Or so I'm told

It's a real fear
For you and me
Burning clothing just to keep the winter warm
My fingers trace the gumline
Of a skeleton key
Not caring whether it could open up the door
The faces at the window
Are children in the womb
Black-eyed and still
But growing every day
You'll die on the outside
Or die in this room
Either way

Our infancy's receding
We're a heartbeat from the end
Did you hear the madmen lost the war?
I bet they could use a friend
Right now supper's getting cold
Right now God is growing old
Right now dialect is evolving
Outside this house
Or so I'm told

                 
We're stockpiling warheads
                    
We're stuck in the past
                      
Death is art Truth is beauty
                         
And the first shall be last
                                      
You'll call me Athena, I'll call you Monet
                                                
When the world is falling down crumbling like clay
We're hiding in caverns
Forgetting our names
We dissolve in our mythology
Like blood in the rain
You'll call me the lion
I'll call you the lamb
I am lost in all you are
You're alive for what I am