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The Rhetorician

from Sleep Furiously by Thumpermonkey

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lyrics

Arms full o' pinchbeck.
Sunburned in the reeds.
I don't dislike you as the Seneschal says
I should.
You tell me
I'm the strangest seed
that you've ever seen
sprouting
up from the maternal
cave mouth.

And you laugh at me,
and I laugh at you.
Nobody thought

such a pair as us
would ever drain the blue blood out of the sky.
Only comforted
by gripping the things we hide up our sleeves like they were our souls.

Nobody thought that

such a pair as us
could render our
bones to chalk, become lovers riddled with holes.

Cos you were just as brittle as me.
Wait for either me or you to cut the brakes and embody our ambition.
All that we have left to do with our mistakes; each to play the rhetorician.

Even if we shared a single body, you in the left, and me in the right, I'd pull back your sleeve - find another sleeve.

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from Sleep Furiously, released October 31, 2012

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Thumpermonkey London, UK

A person in space, walking, or adrift, but safe, exploring, freedom, discovery.

A clockwork piano contraption, like a giant ballerina box, but turning a big totem pole, around which smart office dressed people slowly dance with dead glazed eyes as a slightly out of tune slow Satie-like Lydian melody loops round.

White men in pith helmets hunting large animals to extinction.
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