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This Town Let Me Down

from On Sleep Lab by The Stairs

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This Town Let Me Down

"Thank you very much. It's delightful to be here."

I hate it when you're alive
I smear myself with honey from places even bees don't hide
and hidden camera hookers
travel the world by train
I'm in love with a monster
endlessly destined for the drain
and you my friend are impossibly against everything
but when you wear a green tuxedo you dance where they tell you to sing
so erase all thoughts of racing home to cut off the
king make your home on a star, as Mary Anna Lizbeth grows wings, she's the overseer of precious things


now into the river's eye
we shake like some paper taped to a car passing by
and expert animators
think they know which way we move
I'm a sucker for sequels
and here comes the one where we lose
a piano grand where every single key turns to black
a hopeful frequent loser makes his presence known from the back it's the way he moves that suggests he might turn and attack greet your new home Mary Anna this is where we finally unpack
can everybody hear me in back?

"Another year is to pass before I come of age.
Come back at Thanksgiving. Return to me
at Thanksgiving. Then I will answer."

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from On Sleep Lab, released May 2, 2005

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In 2001 three friends from Dedham, Massachusetts were awarded a cultural grant. They decided to record an album that included everyone in their town that wanted to participate. The finished album was released under the name The Stairs. This is what they made. ... more

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