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MY MUSEUM BLUES

I can't articulate the shame the vain and unrelenting blame
I place to man and beast the same
I guess to aim the water in the drain is only human
My fingers unfold without restraint
To cling and claw the veil from the face
That drapes the windows from the rain
And brace them together in some sort of union
I must address the obvious
The mess of this and that and this
That famous anonymous wilderness
This bliss undressed by wisps of dim confusion
And tethered to the floors
I hear a scream that leaves the boards that creak
To free itself beyond mere fleeting speech
That breathlessly breeds these delusions
Dear lady please answer me
I beg of you your new and naked attitude
The exact truths which you conclude
In lucid soaring interludes
That move your soul to some relief
I see the things that anybody sees
The dreams the sermons, elegies
These cheap cryptic formalities
To clean and eat the humbled spirit
An empty hand lays down the prize
The prayers turn to a soft disguise
The dead and living both decry
But amplify the reasons why they still fear it
The marksman nears a clearing where
The message ain't no clearer
But it mirrors here and Heaven there
And why creatures revere the weirdness of their maker
Tonight my love she lays in bed
While forms of dread swim through my head
Instead she said she won't contend
with things she doesn't hate yet and I won't wake her
Sweet lady that I look to
Along this nameless ancient chain I yank
This insane circus train track takes
It's aim without it's brakes
I can't see through the smoke it makes
And so I look for you

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from Famous Anonymous Wilderness, released September 2, 2003
Graham Lindsey - vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
M.B. Gordy - percussion

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Known for the dark, raw, stripped-down approach he takes to American roots and folk, Graham Lindsey's music has been said to fall somewhere in the middle of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and 'if Gillian Welch had a male counterpart,' while following in the traditions of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. But, it does so with plenty of his own punk rock sensibilities in tact.

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