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Automaticity
03:10
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All of the I Love Yous in the world
Precious as a string of plastic pearls
Bedazzling the landfill of your pure intentions
You’re all set to blow your cover
Will you bet your life?
Automatic pilot, rest your eyes
Slapstick tightrope sleepwalkers survive
Kiss automaticity goodbye, it’s no protection
You don’t get to do this over
You don’t get more time
Your words are meaningless if you never put aside your disguise
Typing “save me” into a browser window won’t make it alright
So lifelike when you take your place
and say what you’re expected to say
In half-light anyway
Some half-baked half-awake embrace
waiting for the end of the day
Or for a slap in the face
You don’t get to do this over
Will you bet your life?
And when I opened my eyes
Unconscious in overdrive
I saw your face in the light, oh
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Dead-Eyed God
05:23
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Greed and grievance, reptile brain
Grafted to a rotting frame
A swiz by any other name
Doctrine of a dead-eyed god
Reward and punish, pride and shame
Winners learn to work the game
Losers born to take the blame
For the judgement of a dead-eyed god
Whose blessing is a hole that hides you
Whose mercy blinds you
Alabaster idol, violence and fear confine you
So white and cold
To the mold where they made you
In the image of a dead-eyed god
Boys, so proud to make the most
Of your abusive father’s ghost
With dreams of knife-fight sacrifice
To feed a dead-eyed god
Who populates, ex nihilo, this nihilistic rodeo
With wolves and sheep, the weak and bold
Bled white for your dead-eyed god
Whose blessing is a hole that hides you
Whose mercy blinds you
Alabaster idol, violence and fear confine you
So white and cold
To the mold where they made you
In the image of a dead-eyed god
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J. Robbins Baltimore, Maryland
J. Robbins has been the singer/guitarist and principal songwriter in several DC-and-Baltimore-area post-punk rock bands
since the late 1980s, most notably Jawbox, Burning Airlines, and Channels. He is also owner and operator of the Magpie Cage recording studio in Baltimore MD.
T-shirts and other J. Robbins-related merch are available at www.shirtkiller.com/jrobbins
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