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Liner Notes on a Lifetime of Repentance

God’s driving by in a Mercedes
And you’re in your boxers
Smoking a cigarette
On the side of the freeway
Outside of Vegas
Trying to hitch a ride.

The tequila, the bourbon
The dry mouth
And tobacco scorched throat;
They leave you like that
Sore and remorseful
On the shoulder
Of bum-fuck nowhere
Looking for a savior
In the passing headlights

PAIN: sunburns, blistered feet, cold sores
The clap, VD, emphysema, COPD, whatever
PAIN is good

When discernment is lost
Numb is painful, and the pain is numbing

And the brilliant
The most educated and erudite,
Mere animals

And an animal
Numb
And blind, dead

To his own soul
Will kill you
On his way to the grave,

While the idiot
Nursing a hangover
Sometimes puts the booze down

If just for a
Day
And a day quite often

Is all it takes
As wisdom and brilliance
Are not the same.
Written by crystalcolumz (-Shannon-)
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Author's Note
Just overstating the obvious
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