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A Love Song And A Drum Machine

by Paul Gonzenbach

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Jon Salisbury I've long had a oft sot for Gonzenbach's work. Poignant lyrics and great melodies. Favorite track: Go Ahead.
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So sew it up and note the time. The loose ends meet, the couplets rhyme. A stack of applications on your nightstand. Not exactly as you planned. I know that look upon your face, the mirror in your eye. I know you lie awake at night and feel his breath on you and wonder why. You wake up to the news at noon. Or you wake up to the afternoon chat shows. The degree hangs on the wall of the apartment that’s to small to hold the couch you hauled all the way from Pittsburgh and then left on the curb. Now your friends don’t bother calling you. That moment they would have to talk to him to get to you is more, so much more than they can stand. You wake up to the news at noon. Or you wake up to the afternoon chat shows. You brother said he’d visit you. Your cousin said she meant to. You’re hoping they will do the work and you can just smile and play along.
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Go Ahead 04:48
When your worthy words get worthless, become too complex to mean anything, and when your nimble tongue gets twisted, unwittingly wicked, and when your winning smiles fail, your fingers flail, with your oiseaux de guerre, we'll be made aware. We'll be made aware. One year from here, or maybe nine, you will come to me crying but never mind that now. You've got a death drive and a 4/4 beat, so try it. Oh, it's new because it's you. And who am I, oh who am I? Brother, why in the heat of July do you wear your long sleeves? It never leaves you if you never let it go. You've got more than enough, but why are you compelled to share? One year from here, or maybe nine, you will come to me crying but never mind that now. You've got a death drive and a 4/4 beat, so try it. Tomorrow starts here as you finish your beer, so how can I say no? You've got a love song and a drum machine, so go ahead. Oh, it's new because it's you. And after all, who am I? Oh, who am I?
4.
Flatly, in the muted light of rain I walk through the gutters. And always underneath a wet wool coat, I wear my destination. It sounds like a simplification but it grows like cancer in me. And I've chased you down that alley before, and I know now that it doesn't go anywhere. Ooo, it doesn't lead anywhere. I never learn I never learn I never learn. "You're not telling anymore," he says. "You're not telling if you ever were," he says. "You're not listening." Well, I guess you're right.
5.
I am the undertow. I am the dusk. I am the basement rat. I am the anesthetist. I am the hunter's game. I am the family plot. I am the parole. I am the groom. I am the heart of hell.

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released October 15, 2008

Josiah Feinberg plays drums on tracks 2 and 3.

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