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Outlaw Band of Clatter

The youth have teeth like tigers or tight ropes
Abundant mess of forest hair,    d u r e s s
They charge the strings with their electric hopes
And bloody drum with battered sticks possess

(Refrain:
Tattooed wrinkles in flash pan of gray matter
In classic dress, this outlaw band of clatter)

(CHORUS OF VOICES: 
The youth have teeth of forest hair
They charge with battered sticks.)

The youth have walked in circles, find themselves
In  p r e e x i s t e n t  footprints,  m e r r i l y
Going round, and flying off crude music shelves
And plucking   h e a r t s t r i n g s   arbitrarily

(Refrain:
Tattooed wrinkles in flash pan of gray matter
In classic dress, this outlaw band of clatter)

(CHORUS OF VOICES:
Find themselves merrily
Going round arbitrarily)

B a d a $ $  at one time - a   m i l l i o n   to one
W  O  N   over   generous     v e n e r a t i o n
They wore suits as they melted in the    s u n
The-sin-of-getting-old       g e n e r a t i o n

(CHORUS OF VOICES:

veneration
                   plucking heartstrings
                                                     a million to one

tattooed wrinkles
                             under duress
                                                    outlawed by the youth

alzheimers
                  parkinsons
                                    walkers
                                                  death beds)

They wore suits as they melted in the    s u n
The-sin-of-getting-old       g e n e r a t i o n….

(CHORUS OF VOICES:
They wore the sin of getting old)

Copyright © Kim Rodrigues

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