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I live alone in a flat I own with all of my old postcards
It's not too far from Martha's bar where I try not to think too hard
'Cause feelings fade to the past you've made in a house full of things that you bought
And rivers flood while the heart pumps blood and I choke up just at the thought

People always said that I didn't care
that I don't understand a thing, and that's wrong
But that's how they'd convict an innocent man
by telling you the things that you knew all along

Remember the time, for your freedom and mine, when they crushed the communist way?
The system's a con, so let's turn on and let the stereo play

People with the time to move the money around
Say that I fell off the face of the Earth
When all their favorite strippers are friends of mine
Crumpled dollar bills are all they're worth
How can they say that I threw in the towel
When they've forgotten everything they can't steal
The lipstick bitterness of my first kiss
Smell of a Seattle rain, that's real

So did you come to commiserate, or call me a creep
Or just to watch the old man drink himself to sleep?

Well Martha, just wake me when you fill my glass again
This johnny-come-lately, he thinks he's my only friend
Someone tell Jesus his road machine has got to stop
'Cause there's still a FIRE in this old beat up life of mine by the drop.

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from Op Shop and Elsewhere, released January 31, 2015

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Erik Cameron Chicago, Illinois

Music, words, whiskey and dog. Guitar parts and pickles and print. Brackish beer. Born on Cinco de Mayo.

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