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Song For The Damned

from Dear Dionysus, Sweet Aphrodite by The Here and Now

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I’ve been pounding these feet for years through dead-end towns. But lotus leaves and a one-eyed thief are all I’ve found. He said, “Son, just fall in line and you’ll be fine. Though Circe promised dreams of gold now they’re just swine.” Don’t sing me a song for the damned. I’ll take anything but idleness from these goddamned hands. You know I’ll embrace the disgrace I’ve spun. A weathered face left too long in the sun. We both know I’m far from done. One night I went downtown to meet a friend of mine. He said, “follow the brightest lights to the county line.” But from the juke box came a Siren song of our yesterdays. He pushed me out naked as night lest I stay. Don’t sing me a song for the damned. I’ll take anything but idleness from these goddamned hands. You know I’ll embrace the disgrace I’ve spun. A weathered face left too long in the sun. We both know I’m far from done. I met this girl and with just one grin she tore me limb from limb. My seams Scylla shredded with ease. And in this Charybdis of a town I did nearly drown. But now, well fed, I’m in bed with a nymph that has taken this heart and head but I keep an eye to that eastern wind instead. Don’t sing me a song for the damned. I’ll take anything but idleness from these goddamned hands. You know I’ll embrace the disgrace I’ve spun. A weathered face left too long in the sun. We both know I’m far from done. Oh, these songs haven’t all been sung. One day I’ll cave or I’ll say I’ve won. We both know I’m far from done.

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from Dear Dionysus, Sweet Aphrodite, released September 10, 2013

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