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The Hermit (In Real Life)

from Have You Met The Channel? by Mama Would Be Proud

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story_Thomas flees to the country side, mountain side, river side, looking for answers and discovers a desert within himself_

There's a message on a fountain,
"see the statue in the garden?"
There's a lady in the parlor smoking cigarettes, humming
at her darling humming bird, she pretends it's speaking words
"with its flapping so damn tactful!" we swore it was reacting

To our bitter fleeting motion (there's three words)
how we danced out in the open (we spoke too slowly)
but as night began to settle (walking backwards)
into days I got forgetful (into holy)
And I manage nothing honey (mountain, river)
yeah, my feeling are that funny (to deliver)
sometimes friends attempt to show me (hark! thee Mister)
still gets lonelier than lonely (breathe in quicker)

These days I wouldn't tell a secret to the dog that lives next door
(there's three words we spoke too slowly)
I got every mixed emotion except the ones that give me more
(walking backward into holy)
of that attachment and I'm bat shit-
(mountain, river)
could be crazier than that chick
(to deliver)
in the sky I'm seeing why I'll be alone until I die
(hark! thee Mister, breathe in quicker)
join the leader and the rabbits, regardless of the Mad Libs
(and I remember and I miss her)
fill the blank and pay the tab kid- this body thing were trapped in

It's a shell and I'm the hermit, squirming at the skirmish
(there's three words we spoke too slowly)
give me air, or your hair, or just tell me you're not hurting
(walking backward into holy)
every night's another story, feels embedded in that glory
(mountain, river to deliver)
and you know crying on your pillow's a lot like pissing on a willow
(hark! thee Mister, breathe in quicker)

And I know it's just a long verse and I'm always kind of nervous
and it's not because they're staring , or if they're not, or just not caring
I'm a aware of certain truth: there could be no certain truths
so the anxious knows it better than the ones that think they do

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from Have You Met The Channel?, released August 14, 2015

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