hanging on a headrush—
and i’m calling your name,
but you can’t hear a thing
‘cause you’re just out of frame,
and the crowd keeps telling you
one thing, repeated again.
nobody bothers with you anymore—
‘cause you wave them away,
pass it off like a phase,
i’ve studied your act
and i’m pretty impressed.
but you don’t have to go off
if you don’t want to,
you can just stay here
and be quiet all night.
now i’m taking
photographs of places
that you said used to bring you down,
‘cause some good-ol’-boy
honky-tonk
motherfucker there
used to try and boss you around.
say it out loud,
tired and true,
just trying to get over
the things hiding underneath you.
so if you feel like a blank
when you get to the root,
just remember i know
the same way that you do
that the enemy is within.
credits
from Comrade Isodora Duncan,
released June 21, 2014
Bowie Twombly on drums, Hanna Tashjian everything else.
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