A Life in the Corn Syrup
Blackbird Raum * Track #9 On Purse-Seine
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Album Purse-Seine
- #1Pistol Dance
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- #2
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- #3We Believe In Us Versus Them
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- #4Coal
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- #5Witches
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- #6Sadie’s
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- #7It is a Poor Sack That Turns Everything it Contains to Shit
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- #8Ars Goetia
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- #9A Life in the Corn Syrup
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- #10Cities
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- #11Fortuna, I am a Spear Fisherman
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A Life in the Corn Syrup by Blackbird Raum
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Within the lyric booklet, this quote follows the lyrics to this song
“A man is standing against a wall with an accordion strapped to his chest; his hands are cut off at the wrists, but the accordion writhes between his stumps like a sack of snakes. The universe has dwindled; it is only a block long...
A Life in the Corn Syrup Lyrics
Every fucking night I grind my teeth
The world spins faster and faster
How I wish that it would stop
In the dirty light of morning
I begin to wretch
Slabs of concrete everywhere
Poison water, poison air
In the window of a passing bus
I see my reflection
Staring back at myself
Is just like watching television
People pass me by
Staring blankly forward
Billboards keep me company
As the numbered streets, like years, go by
All I have are steel rails to carry me onward
They wind about this earth, like a snake through grinding the gears
In the center of the gears is a pair of gods:
Progress and technology -- the glittering panopticon
As the wheel stops
As the fortress walls drop
I will plunge my knife
In to the heart of the clock work
This blade will burn
As the electric lights go out
And we remember the teachings of no one
Fucking no one!
Every fucking night I grind my teeth
The world spins faster and faster
How I wish that it would stop
In the dirty light of morning
I begin to wretch
Slabs of concrete everywhere
Poison water, poison air