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Newspaper Man

from The Great Talk by Flat Mary Road

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Newspaper Man

I knew that when I left the house I would find something
I knew that when we both crossed paths I would know it
that giddy, stupid, childish nausea has never
left me without drama

And I walked away from your three doors so full of air
the kind of air that you need to survive
my only goal in life has always been warmness and it’s
always at arm’s length

Yeah
I’m your newspaper man
yeah
I’m your newspaper boy
yeah
I’m your newspaper

What if it was all still ahead of me?
What if it was all still waiting there, in the head of me?

I could sit for hours with no break in between
listening to your words bounce off the walls onto me
such a buttery inflection
words that I want to
devour and digest

Then something welled up and I wrote you a letter
and the words flowed onto the page like a post-flood river
I analyzed the future, then I criticized the past
I never even mentioned one star

Dancing around, I let that girl dance me around
clowning around, I let that clown take me to town

And I brought up these walls like your bones bring up your skin
and I secured these walls like your secrets kept within
and it’s more of a home than my home that doesn’t move
and it’s more of a home than my home that I will own
with a window that I will throw a bottle through
with the cat and the dog who can’t tell the difference between the two
with the neighbors who build fences just to have something to lean onto
with the wife and the kids and the walls and the rugs looking so damn blue
with the wife and the kids and the walls and the rugs looking so goddamn blue

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from The Great Talk, released August 19, 2014

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