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Guillotine

from Please, Please You by Toy Gun

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lyrics

The body is bleeding and I'm begging it to scar
For some frame of reference, a clear line to start
I can't see the present tense so I entertain the past
But how do you host a ghost when you cannot read its plans

This year means nothing to no one except between you and me
I get tired of advertising for a meaning I don't mean
All my friends look clean like water I'm in dirt up to my knees
I can't find my way to the river, I wash with liquor, coke and tea

And I swore by this time I'd be better than dead
But as far as I can tell it hasn't happened yet
I keep coming to the same room spinning around to be seen
Every noise that slides past me serves to shake the guillotine

Sit in the cold just to get away from the faces
That are asking too much and you wish that they were strangers
Confronting every morning with blame and a fist
As if without mutiny there couldn't be a ship

So you wait on the time clock to permit your escape
Begrudging, it is glaring an accusation of "Ingrate!"
Maybe tonight the liquor will do its job for once
And drown out the determined fear that's been at your heels for months

And I swore by this time I'd be better than dead
But as far as I can tell it hasn't happened yet
I keep coming to the same room spinning around to be seen
Every noise that slides past me serves to shake the guillotine

Everywhere you are, you never want to be
Everywhere you're going is another doomed strategy
You know you can't stay here but there's nowhere else to go
Put one foot in front of the other when there's no choice on a tightrope

And I swore by this time I'd be better than dead
But as far as I can tell it hasn't happened yet
I keep coming to the same room spinning around to be seen
Every noise that slides past me serves to shake the guillotine
Here I go again, let it rush me in
a fool chasing a carrot on a carousel with no end

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from Please, Please You, released April 2, 2015

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Post industrial expressionist chamber music for the hopeful pessimystic.

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