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Straw Dogs (Tiananmen)

from The Beehive of Selfish Selves by The Tomorrow File

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"Heaven and Earth are heartless/ treating creatures like straw dogs" - Tao T

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A sad excuse
With bloody fingernails
Like a bird
Crushed in it's shell

Just like a mirror
Without the silver
Just ike a mouth
Without a tongue

This sorry state
Of disappointment
This short sharp shock
That tries to hide the pain

WIth songs of decay and disharmony
Satellitle makes it all too real too me

Something like this should be dissected
Something like this could never be any good
A gentle word takes less than a life
Even if it falls stillborn from my mouth

Picture a mother
Who's grayed and fading
Her brittle bones snapping as she falls
It's not surprising that such a lady
Would gnash her teeth
And scratch and crawl

I had a dream
And in this dream
I stumbled
Tearing my knee
On cracked and sympathetic road

And the sky turned black with flame
Spitting teeth, dying for shame
And scores of puddles wwelled by the roadside
Twisted finger feel dull and swollen lips

Then finally my head exploded
As I but down on the rifle butt
On a night that thinkc with eternity
Satellite makes it all too real too me

Picture a mother
Who's grayed and fading
A middle kindgom with such a winning smile
Tell me how can such a lady
Live with herself
While she devours her young

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from The Beehive of Selfish Selves, released November 4, 2012
Written and performed by Daniel J.S. Lewis.

Recorded and Mixed by Daniel J.S. Lewis at Dead Dog Studio.

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The Tomorrow File comes at you with smart hooks and penetrating lyrics. A singer/songwriter with an eclectic ability to fuse genres in an originally singular way.

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