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Take the Bait and run

Daylight breath in my face like primrose blooming in spring sending fumes all over the place and I opened my mouth and gasp for breath I twist and turn a dozen times before I could drag myself out of bed but I made one final leap and toss the pillow in the street and break the sleep deficit spell That was hanging over my head since President Bush sold the golden bed Morning suddenly rushed through the door like mad men smoking weed on the barren shore, no one was there except me with a stack of paper piled up in front of me and the portraits of history staring at me I paced around the floor looking for a solution before I walk through the door but the remedy was wrapped up in premonition and baseless prophecy and so I had to Search for my own remedy I can get more done with less and I can get less done with more and so I finally figure out how to steer the boat without an engine for that is what life is about Take the bait and run before the day is done Take the bait and run because we are going to have fun, you set the bait to humiliate me, and to drag me down from the tree but I will turn it upside down and spin my body around and eat it for my daily meal. Come let me show you something, you see that mountain over there, that is where I been, I have traveled the heights and depth of that wall and you see the tree next to it, it is still standing tall I have flew over that great big ocean, filled with blood thirsty sharks that was coming after me when we made the final splash down in the sea and I escape it all by climbing the mountain that has a tunnel that runs beneath ocean floor and the villagers came and rescue me and now I am free, I have cleared all my debt and I don’t have to fret. my people can go anywhere and they don’t have to fear for my debts are cleared Take the bait and run and look straight into the sun And the symbol will tell you where to run.

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