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now clarity lost out to desire
I married the madness in her eyes
a ceremony with a serried edge
what's the price to fly
in a cage of wire

displaying the scars where my hands were tied
from martyr to sinner in record time
while she took the orange from the autumn sky
so sublime
so we said goodbye
what's the price to fly
in a cage of wire

boys spin by like a mobile inside
her knowing ambivalent mind
but isn't this one more alive?
where am I?
and where's my right mind?

outside of the aviary tonight
would I still fly?

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from Abandoned Mansions acoustic EP, released June 25, 2014

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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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