Joey Cape – The Contortionist (Guitar)

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In a chalk dotted line*

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Draw a kid, left behind 

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Severed limbs in harmony 

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Strumming from a few good deeds

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Carry it to survive 

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To a bed half alive 

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Held before a dozen times 

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Deep inside a funeral for a friend: 

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Runs in portions like film clips

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Run, run

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Rundown the list 

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The memoirist 

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Like kindling 

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Burn, burn, burn, burn it down 

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I will stay inside 

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The saved 

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It's a good mourning 

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They will ignite you 

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The doomed

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And I will write for you 

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Of a boy, damaged goods 

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Of a bench, understood 

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For a spell, the soul resides 

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In a yellow chalk outline 

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Carry on the camel's back 

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Have another heart attack 

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To the cure I would drive 

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Played that scene a hundred times to date 

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Today's ambition, to relate 

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In a sustaining saccharine state 

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Impart the burden and get well 

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It's what everyone's trying to sell 

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Anything you want it to be

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Weigh the screenplay and revise 

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Warp, warp, warp with the contortionist 

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So hopelessly ill-fated everyday 

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He will stay inside 

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The doomed 

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It's a good mourning to loom 

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They will inspire him 

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The saved Innocently filling graves