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 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?

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Everybody said she needed to move on
That he was all but lost, so deep was his coma
When he finally came to, the girl he loved was long gone
She'd married a banker and gone to Oklahoma

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

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This old yankee warlock
Brushed back a gray forelock
And he motioned me to sign in the book
With no bonhomie
He proffered the key
Never once did he give me a look