Joey Cape – The Contortionist (Guitar)

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In a chalk dotted line

C
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

C
To a bed half alive

Em
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 incite 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 morning to loom

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They will inspire him

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The saved Innocently filling graves