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Simon, l'Agneau
05:10
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Summertime sun is shining
Melodic cattle-bells clanging
Another Alpine stroll, and all’s right with the world
But a cry of distress
Draws my eyes to the precipice
An unlikely place for a lamb
To have gotten into
What the hell do you think you’re doing exactly?
So far away from safety
O baby lamb, my hopes now wrapped up in your
Not plummeting to a bloody death
(I'm holding my breath)
Simon, there’s more riding on this than you know
I need you to pull through
One hoof in front of the other
No sudden movements
My friend, I wish you would just step back from that ledge
Think this through—life is beautiful
Wait, never fear
Suddenly there appears a mountain mama
With an air of knowing
She lived in Australia
“This happens all the time,” she said
There’s more riding on this than you know
I need you to pull through
Mountain Mama takes your right leg
She tells me to grab the left
And with grace and tenderness
She restores you to pastures less precarious
And that’s how we three became a family
Simon, there’s more riding on this than you know
I need you to pull through
Bought a hut way up in the mountains
Built a fence so you can feel free
Another Alpine stroll and all’s right with the world
In my hand, the calloused hand of my true love
Simon, there’s more riding on this than you know
I need you to pull through
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Beijing Blue
03:35
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Beijing Blue
You’re lookin’ good today
I think I might come out to play
The sun hasn’t shone in seventeen days
And I haven’t had a conversation in just as long
Beijing Blue
You’re lookin’ good today
A man spit on my shoes
But that’s no news
Mama back home in the Beautiful Kingdom
Printin’ images for the fridge from social network sites
Asking herself what she could’ve done
to raise a more dutiful son
Beijing Blue
You’re lookin’ good today
I could even use my new vocabulary--
今天天气特别好
There is no better time
No better time than now
The middle eight is a place to be grateful
For clouds that are white and have shape
And backdrops that are blue
Where pandas made of clouds can chew their cloud bamboo
Beijing Blue
You’re lookin’ good today
I think I might come out to play
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3. |
Franklin Was A Turtle
04:20
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Franklin was a turtle,
(Actually he was Chinese and rarely
Responded to his christened name)
Franklin lived awhile
In an oblong bowl on a bicycle
Looking for love
Looking for a home
That’s where I met Franklin one bitter December morn
From the coldest winter in 50 years a family was born
But Franklin was a turtle
And as such, wasn’t much
For socializing
Expressing affection or gratitude
Was just beyond his aptitude
(Evolutionarily speaking)
That’s where I met Franklin one bitter December morn
From the coldest winter in 50 years a family was born
That’s where I met Franklin one bitter December morn
From the coldest winter in 50 years a family was born
Franklin tended to bury his head inside his shell
The doctor said emotional detachment disorder
Side effects include unspeakable odor
That’s where I met Franklin one bitter December morn
From the coldest winter in 50 years a family was born
Now it’s Christmas, and Franklin is listless
Franklin's culture is far from ours
And difficult to penetrate
But turtle soup is seen as the highest form of dignity...
That’s where I met Franklin one bitter December morn
From the coldest winter in 50 years a family was warmed
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Combing the daily for dangling participles
Waxing philosophic while civilization crumbles
Daunting, my newsfeed
(These people have degrees!)
“Who” is not objective
I’m feeling positively Elizabethan
There’s no tense like the present
I love you without condition
The future’s outta my hand
There’s such satisfaction in self-ruled perfection
Start with a blank page and a sense of direction
Teacher hands back loose-leaf sheets
Spewed from anorexic exercise books
I rework the ratio in red—objective
To calculate my exploits
There’s no tense like the present
I love you without condition
The future’s outta my hand
I met a girl fastidious and true
She never ends sentences with prepositions
Down on one knee
Future tense proposition
The future is easily inflected--
I will do, we will do
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5. |
Turn Down The Radio
03:45
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Oprah-pornography for the National Public Soul
Your American-ness is great
Happiness is the warm and fuzzy glow after a gang bang
No need to cling to guns, generals, or gods
Turn down the radio
You are on the air
(Is there anybody there?)
Steepness of a slope is a function of its slipperyness
And an argument repeated sounds more sound
Demagogues to their demimondes do rhetoricate and foam
It takes more than a day to construct a Rome
Turn down the radio
You are on the air
(Is there anybody there?)
Long-time listener, first time to add my voice
To an anthem too beautiful for harmony
Seven steps to hegemony, the pathos-driven life
Synecdochely speaking the hands, the roots of grass
A moment in time
A moment in time
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6. |
10,000 Paper Cranes
03:02
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Ten-thousand cranes take flight tonight
Goodbye
There is what is, what might have been
There’s a song in our hearts
There’s a song in our hearts
These are the chords
Consider them yours
These are your 10,000 cranes
We will never be the same
We will never be the same
We will never be the same
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O Apostrophe Kampala, Uganda
Melodic, literate, subversive. O Apostrophe is the nom de guerre of Eric Steven Spreng. Beholden to no one, Spreng follows the muses when he sees fit. A wanderer, a believer in the arts, and a high school English teacher.
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