Joseph Arthur – I Miss The Zoo (Guitar)

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I miss the drunk

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I miss the fiend

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I miss the simplicity of addiction and the scene

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I miss wandering aimlessly

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In half dead sewers

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With rats for eyes chewing on forgiveness

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And the will to apologize

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I miss the return of no return as

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I burn in avalanche of

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White snow and yellow cocaine

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I miss talking to brick walls while following the grain

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And human dolls as I plagiarize myself like a dummy

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Stuffed with counterfeit money for Cairo and black honey

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I miss illusions begging to be chased

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Even as they disappear into me erased

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Until there is no one or nothing but the chase

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And a powdery ghost with no face or faith

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And the woman of my dream

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Disappearing without grace

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo

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I miss evolving into a cloud of blue marijuana

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Blown from the lips of hookers and pimps

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In alleys for the dammed but mighty

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With no one but the weak around and the beautiful unsightly

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I miss numb Neanderthals

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Marching in rows of living dead

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From my wisdom teeth to Spain and back again in my head

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I miss salvation in syringes and angels of mercy

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In blooms of smoke numbing rain which drinks when thirsty

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I miss glasses full of spirits who without tongues

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Speak to me of napoleons wild nights

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I miss staying up for days and becoming a psychic pretzel flying kites

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Chewed on by a Zulu heading with toads to mars

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A mysterious prison and one without bars

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo

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I miss waking in the arms of strangers like puppies

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Just born in the pound to

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A dead mother with eyes sealed shut

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Looking for a tit to suck and other dangers

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When the night before laughter was our only pursuit

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Even as knives carved up our

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Backs and demons sat like Buddhas eating fruit

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Meditating on hate

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Forever in our minds

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I miss exposing even my bones

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And the need that rewinds

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Even my burning home

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Even my gutted inner child

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Even my dead grandfather

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Beneath the ground that's wild

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Even my criminal family

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Even my weedwacker thoughts

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Whipping a thin plastic string to

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Cut the ears of others as I sing

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I miss van Gogh's revenge

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I miss his nightly binge

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I miss spiders surrounding my bed and lifting me as if an effigy

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Or a Dead King or a prophet of doom

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A Jesus for the apocalypse wearing dirt like perfume

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Or a mother for Satan or a ghost for all the children of abuse

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And taking me into the fire watching me burn like a goose

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As they sing in spider voices

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There goes creation

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There goes the moon

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There goes the butterfly wanting a cocoon

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I miss being a bloom and a goon

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Waking up too soon, in the afternoon

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A doctor of regret

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Hanging onto guitar strings in tune

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And hanging by a belt wrapped around some pipe to nowhere and felt

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My lips too wrapped around what appears to be stained glass

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As religious figures dress like rocks with class

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Burn into gas to the center of my brain

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The euphoria of dying

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And being born all at once

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While wearing the hat that reads 'dunce'

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo

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I Miss The Zoo