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Poets on Parade

from The Glory of Man is Not in Vogue by Mudville

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lyrics

Open up your eyes, the guardians have left our country
Gentlemen are soft and stony elegance makes light of purity

On balance it’s a mystery, obscurity has got you down
Chase the flying bat-rat ponies, race the blown-up bean counter wannabe
Pinups in a finkish world
The poets whine, the poets twirl their metaphors for old cat nosehair
Someone soon will want to buy it

And all the while their numbers grow like credit cards

Who wants to be the griot, town crier, Grand Vezir
And give your life of snow-white fingers and lazy arms
When no one’s listening to you

You want to move me, you want to move me
Oh, speak to me of curly clover, green winds of your childhood
Sinful dazed, holy and mortified, blacked-out smiling
Bunkered and cup-froze, snore-in-your-breadline POV
Till they can’t help but see ya (wouldn’t wanna be ya)
You call them on the way they go and take it on
What fools these mortals be

My tongue is tired and silence is suspect

The muse you use is drowning by the minute
The muse you cruise could pass you when you’re in it
Like .04 I’m past the legal limit
I ain’t 22 and I don’t got a gimmick

Say, what you gonna leave?
And those who know will grow to write for
“Someday This Will All Be Over” magazine

credits

from The Glory of Man is Not in Vogue, released May 1, 2005
Marilyn Carino - vocals
Ben Rubin - all sounds, except:
Chuck MacKinnon: trumpets, loops

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