the splendid taste of paper

from Rough by Gene Israel

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Back behind the wind in the corner of the world and all of its horror
Made of sounds and disorder and carefully laid bricks and mortar
Playing house x3

Well I know I said I'm a liar, a mouth of soap and pants on fire
I'm crossing myself as I kneel to be sired, but if I knew you I wouldn't desire
Anything x3

Well I know that it's all been done
Yes I know that it's all been said
And the prizes I could win were already won
And the Greeks did it all but they're still dead HAHA!

A face with a name sewn in the bone, basking in the light she's never been shown
Cliffs of candy sour and alone, a tongue of cotton and eyes of stone
Staring out x3

Questions abound without answers, twirling in my brain like a hundred dancers
Made of lime and thirteen cancers, asking me just how to romance her
But I don't know x3

But I know that it's all been done
Yes I know that it's all been said
And the prizes I could win were already won
and the Greeks did it all but they're still dead (THANK GOD!)

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from Rough, released August 1, 2014
Gene Israel - guitar, vocals

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