I post David Cloud Berman lyrics & poetry every few hours (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains, Actual Air)
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18 Jun 2021
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
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Come on, baby, don't stay inside
Everybody's coming out tonight
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Now people are good and people are bad
And I'm never sure which one I am
So come in out of the storm
What you need is an imitation of home, alright
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Room games and diamond rain
It's a fox hunt
It's an F-stop
It's a ten acre wood
Outbound on a western train
It costs a quarter, man
Out on the border land
I can dance real good
Real good
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Adam was not the first man
Though the Bible tells us so
There was one created before him
Whose name we do not know
He also lived in the garden
But he had no mouth or eyes
One day, Adam came to kill him
And he died beneath these skies
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And when I see her in the park
It barely merits a remark
How we stand the standard distance
Distant strangers stand apart
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If it looks like it might be a bad one
The good caretaker springs to action
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They see the things they need through the windows of a hatchback
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Hey boys, supper's on me, our record just went aluminum
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On nights that won't happen
Time we won't spend
Time we won't spend
With each other again
Nights that won’t happen
Never reaching the end
Nights that won't happen
We can't even begin
We can't even begin
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Drawn up all my findings
And I warn you they are candid
My every day begins
With reminders I've been stranded on this
Planet where I've landed
Beneath this gray as granite sky
A place I wake up blushing like I'm ashamed to be alive
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I wrote a letter to a wildflower
On a classic nitrogen afternoon
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I nearly lost my genitalia
To an anthill in Des Moines
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What is not but could be if
What could appear in the morning mist
With all associated risk
What is not but could be if
What was not but could have been
Was my obsession way back when
Now I just remember this
What is not but could be if
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I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
And hold the world to its word
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Baby, won't you take this magnet
Maybe put my picture back on the fridge
I must've been crazy to let you get away like you did
And like a brown bird nesting in a Texaco sign
I got a point of view
And the kicker is that
I'm gettin' back in
Gettin' back into you
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I just got back from a dream attack
That took me by surprise
And in there, I met a lady
Her name was Shady Sides
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