David Berman Bot

I post David Cloud Berman lyrics & poetry every few hours (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains, Actual Air)

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In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

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Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left
And I will see you soon, my friend
If these old directions still direct

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Well, it seems just like a freeze-out
Seems just like a freeze-out
Seems just like a freeze-out
An undisclosed, deeply wooded
Lose your way route

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But this kind of hurtin' won't heal

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Troubles, no troubles
On the line

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Some kind of strange magic happens
When the city turns on her lights

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O Dallas, you shine with an evil light

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They don't cream
And they don't dream in Kansas City

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Closed sign swinging in the window of the liquor store
Better get inside the kingdom and close the door

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Turn your pedestal into a carving board
If that's what the audience is starving for

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Later I come to find
Life is sweeter than Jewish wine
Give a box of candy or a foot massage
Some people don't take the time

I'd crawl over fifty yards of burning
Coals just to make it with you
Sleeping is the only love

Sleeping is the only love

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Nights that won’t happen
Never reaching the end
Nights that won't happen
We can't even begin

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Because the dead do not improve

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I was so far gone in Fargo
South Dakota got annoyed

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I know you laughed when I left
But you really only hurt yourself

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When you're seller and commodity
You gotta sell yourself immodestly

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I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women
In the Greenwood southside society pool
I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs
You're a shimmering socialite jewel

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I wasn't done being my mother's son
Only now am I seeing that being's done

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And I remember you
And I remember me
The sunshine walking inside you
And the man you could see in me

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Out the window, in the harbor, he saw a little ship
The moon was worn just slightly on the right
And they slow danced so the needle wouldn't skip
Until the room was filled with light

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And I remember me
A blackhawk nailed to the sky
And the tape hiss from the trees