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Needle Jump

from Safe as Houses by Mark Lenover

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Explain the Xs there on your temples
What kind of sore leaves scarring like that?
I don’t think rubbing’s making it better
Keep it up and you won’t have anything left to scratch
Sit still and stir your hints into pudding
Knock off, and bury your squalor in bed
Save face, then stretch it, long as a fiddle
just as long as you keep your apprehension fed

Let it go
Let it go
It will sort itself out
It will all collapse into itself

Come down here a minute
Get a hold of yourself
Stretch out for a second
then spin until you’re sick
Just hold your breath
until you sink into your bed

Count up each and every penny
you save for every time you complain
Split hairs and relieve each one of its colour
Scrub off and leave the difference in the drain
Shout out! Your ears are glad for the ringing
Shape up, and run a mile in place
Cool down and knit your eyelids together
until your bad dreams cut themselves a brand new face

Let it go
It’ll sort itself out
Or else we can never let you out
Calm down for a minute
Get a hold of yourself
Come down for a minute

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from Safe as Houses, released April 20, 2011

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Mark Lenover

Through a distinctive fusion of folk, rock, theatre and electronica, Mark Lenover critically examines pop culture’s ubiquitous influence, its moral philosophy and the potentially devastating effects of drug abuse and mental illness. His recent work frequently challenges an increasingly pervasive culture of celebrity, self-indulgence, distraction and desire. ... more

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