it seems i'd rather get a neck cramp!

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it seems id rather get a neck cramp!

It’s not as if I didn’t care
About the things you’re doing there
You said as you moved on and on and on

You’ve got real work you’re behind on
I know it’s hard to step outside
You wink at me and then you’re gone

There was a time when there was time that didn’t fly
When we would lose ourselves for hours
There was no constant buzzing beeping impetus
To halt your ideas from your lips
And take your eyes from mine

The things I didn’t do or I did wrong
Those are the things that keep me up till dawn
But how’s that move the whole wide world along?

It’s only when we’re sick or break our bones
Do we let ourselves ease that load
Consumption is the break for tired souls

There was a time we weren’t tethered to the grid
We fumbled in the grass for hours
I didn’t check to see if this or that or such and such
Responded to that thing that took your beauty from my eyes

There is this diminishing beauty in the natural world
Yet I’m using finite resources without too much thought at all

There is significant beauty right outside my door
a string of things precludes me with no real purpose at all

There is this diminishing beauty in the natural world
Related somewhat inversely to the way I carry on

There is significant beauty right outside my door
Yet it seems id rather get a neck cramp
For no real purpose at all

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from guitar heroN, released December 13, 2015

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jm (fka Joshua Marcus) Providence, Rhode Island

jm loves cooking with and for friends, all things musical, making art with shapes, and getting out of one's brain. and the ocean. and genuineness.

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