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How To Put It Down

from Rock 'n' Roll Always Forgets by Goner

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Sleep aches for me. Deep in my bones, it whispers and burns. But one greasepaint wink, one wine-swept touch, and, lo, he returns. Here come the crisis lights, flashing blue and white. In the trees over the interchange, the kids sway tonight. How to put it down without picking it up? Well, I’m shaking grey. I might I may be off that stuff. But where’s the late night, warm gin and candlelight? And those trouble girls that sway, black skies that never break into day? Story Road looked so different pressed against my face. Blood on my teeth, lawn on my tongue, so ripe to forsake. A boy’s cigarette, he’s not used to yet. It takes time for all of that clean air to forget. Well I’m waxy-eyed and terrified, but I’m off that stuff. Someone tuck me in, kiss my head and then sing a song of summers slow. Goddamn young, goddamn long ago. The angels on the promenade are catching fire, and the streets are sugar-coated just to keep me wired. And I know it’s a long-dead luxury, cause I shot through all my revelry, but I wanna fill my arteries with artificial victory. I wasted all my revelry. Why can’t I fill my arteries with artificial victory?

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from Rock 'n' Roll Always Forgets, released June 24, 2008

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Goner crafts great songs, combining a poetic eye for detail, a cinematic sense of place and character, and an encyclopedic love of rocks both classic and indie.

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