Keith Dovoric

I wanna start fresh
Ditch the folks who used to know me
The ones who watched me plow the fields
Of mediocrity
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A path of good intentions running right outside my door
I never really understood what all the fuss was for
Maybe there's a Heaven here and maybe there's a core
But who here has the courage to confront it?
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I'm lost in a foreign country
But I've lived here all my life
Recently I came into money
I bought a tractor and a Bowie knife
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Waking up on winter mornings - the birth spasm reenacted
Time to head out in a world of pain and cold
Have to harness up the troika, don my bashlyk hood and jacket
And see my shadowy comrades all now stark and old
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I think I'll work on my abs today
Maybe run on the belt
Work some muscles that in 15 years
I haven't felt
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It's a feeding frenzy
But there are no sharks, Bess
It's a moonlight sonata
In total darkness
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We think we have a picture
But that's not how it goes
Give ‘em one little piece of the puzzle,
And everybody thinks he knows
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Broke man all a-shiver
On another winter's eve
He don't have far to venture
Has nothing up his sleeves
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I wanna live to a hundred-and-three
A minor footnote in history
Oh yeah
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There's a secretary that I know
whose husband recently died
But life somehow continues as before
She has to keep replicating the myth
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(for George)

Same thing every morning
Same thing every day
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I have a good charade
I can make a step from a stumble
No need to be afraid
Here in the human jungle
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Her feeding heart and cold command
Enough to make you quit your band
Well, there's only so much frostbite one can take
You've heard her bitter orders before
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Love will keep me going
Love will keep me sane
Love will do whatever it can do
For a tortured brain
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Public affection -
Where did it go?
There's an infection
Nobody knows
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Life is an uphill battle
No credit only blame
You play the cards they hand you
But there's no meaning to the game
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Let's get one thing straight, dear
Let's give the Devil his due
The clouds are conspired against us
The Revolutionaries hate us, too
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I have to remind myself to be kind -
I wish it came more natural
Too easy to be mean with my feelings unseen
Like some ferocious animal
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When every act is sacrilege
And every word is blasphemy,
And the shroud of your suffrage
Is just a veil for your vanity --
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I don't see no harm in asking questions
But somebody gonna tell you you're outta your mind
I don't see no harm in a frame of reference
But somebody gonna accuse you of bein' blind
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