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The Dark Room Act 3 - A New Road

by Bill White

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Colder 02:47
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mornings are getting colder and ive got a runny nose if i gets any colder ill have to buy new clothes up all night on the KIXI easy listening dial even got a little sleep off and on there for a while california girls walk around looking pretty all day the gigolos look silly whenever they act that way when eggnogs not feeling beautiful he wont even get dressed i can see why my wife finds him sexy when he is depressed i cant go home to boston the weather there is colder my lungs froze up in 95 then thawed as i got older think ill head back to phoenix where things are not so asthmatic i know a pawnshop where i can buy a remington automatic
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in america you is what you aint 02:21
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he put a knife to a pregnant womans belly served five years in the federal pen when he got out on parole some nutbag killed him people said, theyre doing it again now he s a martyr he is a saint in america you is what you aint that killer should be sent to the death house fry his ass like a chicken steak in america you is what you aint in the cornfield, the teachers have arrived with their brains severely revised take your books outside and burn em before they fill your mind with germs and on monday your new books will arrive they say an indian is just a white man in red paint in america you is what you aint dont speak in my name mr big shot youre just a wimp washed up on the beach the president of state with sand kicked up in your face in america you is what you aint
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A Cowboy Forever 03:37
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a superhero for every woman a hound dog for every man a chef to do the cooking and a maid to wash the pans black paint for the windows on what used to be a store a nurse to put you under when you cant stand it any more but i remember a time when you could hop on a train and go anywhere with anyone and do anything you liked no more breakin broncos no more cattle drives big sam the coffin builder was the last one seen alive ill ride through fields of thyme across the putple heather then throw my saddle in the river because nobody can be a cowboy forever you cant follow the science if you flunk your physics exams you cant form an alliance if youre looking for someone to scrub your back high speed tains will get you nowhere fast every river ends at the coast we are living in a spiral dream of suicides and ghosts but i remember a time when you could hop on a train and go anywhere with anyone and do anything you liked no more breakin broncos no more cattle drives big sam the coffin builder was the last one seen alive ill ride through fields of thyme across the putple heather then throw my saddle in the river because nobody can be a cowboy forever
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A New Road 03:11
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kickin around ive been kickin around in the gutters of post modernism where even the pre-schoolers can create albums like sgt peppers and nobody cares because the human brain has become a recycling bin for the musical and literary tropes of the twentieth century we need a new genius to lead us up to a new road i took a picture with my telephone then selected a style and lo and behold i had created a warhol silkscreen what a great artist i am throw your sour milk down the drain it wasnt made to last its not the future that will destroy us its the past we are living in a dream where everyone can be whatever they want to be without doing anything to justify it even the pilot of the plane is only playing the part of a pilot and he can do it because the plane doesnt need a pilot to fly it there has to be a way out of these fantasies built on memories of a world that doesnt exist any more we need a new foundation not more and more mutations lets give back all the things we have borrowed and make new bricks to build a new road we need a new road
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Monk to the 9th Power 03:08
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Sex Change 02:00
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What if Helen had been born a boy? There never would have been a Helen of Troy There never would have been a Trojan War No sacrifices on a blood-stained shore Had I been born a girl I would have thrown the pigs my pearls Trippin out in a herd of swine If it wasnt for the whisky it still would have been for the wine I think my car could use a sex change Put the bottom up and pull the top down And if my car can get a sex change Its four flat tires would still go spinning around What if Helen had been born a boy? There never would have been a Helen of Troy There never would have been a Trojan War No sacrifices on a blood-stained shore
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Spanish Civil War 02:23
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she plays trumpet on her back legs spread-eagled to the sky he husband, in a cage, she shits onto his head i dont ant to see any more scenes from the spanish civil war we live on bugs until they l;ive on us so lance the boiland suck the pus the fascist burn our house after they lock the doors it happens all the time with the children locked iside in the spanish civil war your mom betrayed your father following the facist call now she bathes in the blood of bulls while devoring their balls 'i will kill my mother," the sickkly boy swore if i survive this so-called civil war sorry if i am sickening but this has made me sick was not humankind made for better things than this? 500 carcasses beneath the prison floor and we cant blame it all upon the spanish civil war.
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The Dark Room 03:16
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We see what becomes of cities When assaulted from above but what becomes of love. my dear? What becomes of love? Spun with fine threads on a golden loom Now a ragpickers bundle on the floor of a dark room if love makes time pass And time makes love pass What happens to the love of time When its passage is sublime Morning is stuck on the other side And I wake in the dark room waiting for a sun to rise i find things in the dark room that make me run from myself i find things in the dark room that make me run love is a chain love is a lie love is a chamber where innocence dies everybody is guilty of that you can be sure the trick is to get them to tell you who their accomplices were We see what becomes of cities When assaulted from above but what becomes of love. my dear? What becomes of love?
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Dont Be Glum, Make It Fun 03:08
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if you are going to sing about your lady dont be glum, make it fun music is for dancing, for making hay not a requiem on your burial day 20 years ago she said they had 20 years ahead but more years passed and every night brought them bounties of delight then came the devils from the sea and cornered those who could not flee the war refugees from wilted arbors anchored in a thousand harbors never to set a foot on shore how can we dance when the music is cruel and hearts are breaking like drugstore jewels i taste your tears when i see you cry out of one battened eye shw said to dance is to dance she said to sing is to sing think only of the holy now it matters not what the next moment brings so if you are going to sing about your lady dont be glum, make it fun music is for dancing, for making hay not a requiem on your burial day
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Aversion Therapy 05:49
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released August 4, 2021

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