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Them

Sunday, November 13th, 2011

They hit you with their papers when you’re living
on loan. They’re the ones who say nothing when you
answer the phone. You see them in the alleys when
you’re passing late at night, but you tell your friend
to check it and there’s no one in sight.
I never wanted it
I never asked for it
I surely didn’t...

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It’s Too Late

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

It’s too late
To fall in love with Sharon Tate
But it’s too soon
To ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb

I think it’s time that you all start
To think about gettin’ by
But I have that need to go out and find somebody to love

It’s too late
There’s no one left that I even wanna...

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Rooms

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

By Jim Carroll and Steve Linsley

You’re passing,
I hear your shadow through the door
It’s outlined on my shade
Like a map of some foreign shore
If I could keep that shadow,
I could live forever in these

Rooms, the rooms inside my dreams . . .
And dreams have kept me in these rooms

I’ve never...

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Black Romance

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

Everything you ever wanted
Is passing with the driving rain
I died like a salamander
On my heart heavy like a chain
I been waiting here at the Uptown theater
And it’s all becoming clear that

Refrain:
It’s too much head
And not much heart
But if you think about the end
It might never get started

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