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Making it Up (From a Discount Tire)

from Getting the Blues by Empty Heaven

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lyrics

How easy is it for you to remember a name?
How good are you at processing shame?
It’s hidden in the data dump you have at night
It’s tangled with the others as twisted kites
Three years sitting on a Bunsen burner,
a war-torn land deserter; look no further,
you won’t find any real desires
when the pan’s so hot ‘cause the Earth’s on fire
The trash can is way past its last dance
Just keep stress eating ‘til I buy new pants
I’m saying all of my shit is broken; I hate this,
feeling so prosaic and tasteless
I think I’m getting some sort of immunity
slinging subpar pizza in gated communities
Nobody’s got masks and they cough a bunch
onto the sad-sack carrying lunch

You might think
I’m making it up,
but I’m not
I don’t know how else I can say it
You might think
it’s waking me up
Well, I’m up! I’m up! I’m up! I’m UP!

I’m now 28, and in 28 years,
I have nothing to show but my glowing arrears,
betrothed to the tears that appear on my lap
when I think for a minute, then quit it and nap
I counted 14 mundane pains in the ass,
and 3 that in trinity never will pass
I pray to the mercy spirit
I swear that the neighbors can probably hear it
Sometimes I wanna let it out, but I can’t
The friends I have wanna see me do a dance
They wanna see a little miracle of perseverance,
but I’m trucking through a tunnel and I’ve got no clearance
So now, I’ve gotta keep up appearances
I know there’s a world torn up from eternal trauma,
from the course crosshairs of our human drama
In the library of life, I’m a comma

You might think
I’m making it up,
but I’m not
I don’t know how else I can say it
You might think
it’s waking me up
Well, I’m up! I’m up! I’m up! I’m UP!

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from Getting the Blues, released July 9, 2021

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