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Have a Nice Life

from 9 Casler by As A Lark

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Woke up to my senses sensing sense data I really had no right to sense
I don't know why I don't know I just wasn't really thinking, I guess
Looking back I don't know what we thought this clumsy attempt at change was gonna accomplish
I think you wanted touched out of the pain, I think I just had something I could not contain

Lying underneath the words he wrote
Conscience clogging the back of his hope's throat

Tried to describe in vague terms
Things even then I could not put into words
Just don't wanna forget the way it made me sick like nothing did
So I'm doing my best to capture it

What the fuck?
Everything feels like pretend
Life shits and then it ends
And I really love my friends
But I don't know if I can
Keep on going like this and
Never once changing the plan
While I was looking for my Japan
Or maybe a new Michigan
I got lost and don't know where I am
Could you come and get me?

Thought this would be something I could cite
Something secret, something bright
A burning example of this unclassifi-
-able, restless, messy life
But my insides weren't locked up
They were only real pissed off
The creature I created spends his days
Drinking and throwing up in my face

Leaving me with all the pieces, begging me to re-piece them
So I bury them in unkempt piles of pretend
Because I don't know where they go, ignored the hints
Then again, I was never good at games of patience

These vestiges of guilt
Some well-worn, some well-built
Wearing nothing but eyeglasses as a disguise
Saying, "Get the fuck up, man, this is life"

And I can still feel it when I close my eyes
Tremble in the voice as the words come back to life
"Wrap around my neck and squeeze"
We were pawns, the night did with us as it pleased

We'll be all right, have a nice life

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from 9 Casler, released October 1, 2013

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They have more elaborate calls than most birds, and often extravagant songs given in display flight. These melodious sounds (to human ears), combined with a willingness to expand into anthropogenic habitats — as long as these are not too intensively managed — have ensured larks a prominent place in literature and music. ... more

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