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Mixed Signals

from The End of Context by Paul, The Epithet

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From a poem I wrote a while ago, the "Introduction" thing is a quote from a book I like called "The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein

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"I totally understood that what filled us with energy could be toxic for someone else, especially Eve."

One dark day in the middle of the night,
The time was here, the moment was right.
I took a step forward and a leap back,
And threw away protection in defense of the attack.

Ruination and failure and smiles a-fly,
I’d crashed and burned right into the sky.
Nothing ever goes quite as planned,
And failure is wrought when you take a stand.

Ashes to fire and sand to erosion,
Your hearts been heated until it’s frozen.
Calamity strikes and the best emerges,
But savants are smart enough to stifle those urges.

I was shot down over an open field,
And death but awaits me, held in her heel.
Broken hearts can be mended with a circular saw,
And the fight against defiance is one’s only flaw.

Indeed what is stolen can be put to good use,
You stole my heart, and I faked the truce.
Come hither, come hither and then go away,
No one must die to live this way.

The volume of life is measured in pain,
And by how much one’s willing to be hurt again.
Overall the pain has left but a dent,
When she says one thing and the meaning is different.

Now if you’ll excuse me I have to pay my rent,
And my jailor gets mad if the money’s content.

Good-day and bright nights to all of your druthers,
And may irritation and pain fall to all of the others.
Please use truth to fend off the liars.
And as a favor to me,
Use flame on the fires.

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from The End of Context, released April 15, 2012
Paul Winfrey - Vocals, Guitar

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Paul, The Epithet Reno, Nevada

Hi, My name is Paul. I write music on a guitar, and scream alone in a bedroom about love, life, Casablanca, squids, occasionally punkrockanarchy, and a number of other things. Sometimes I use other instruments too, to varying degrees of quality. This is some music. ... more

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