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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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

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When something breaks, it makes a beautiful sound

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All my poor, hungry children
Time will break the world

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Troubles, no troubles
On the line

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I'm drunk on a couch in Nashville
In a duplex near the reservoir
And every single thought is like a punch in the face
I'm like a rabbit freezing on a star

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I smile and I wave and I hide all my pain
But the sign on my bumper gives me away

Honk if you're lonely tonight

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Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?
Soi disantra

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I've got two tickets to a midnight execution
We'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to Houston

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She helped me walk, she watched me run
She got where I was coming from

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I asked the painter why the roads are colored black
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
And no highway will bring them back"
So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger
But before I go, I've gotta ask you, dear, about that tan line on your ring finger

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Mother and child with magazine
Into a story, into a dream

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All my poor, hungry children
Time will break the world

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If we'd known what it'd take to get here
Would we have chosen to?