Your Worldview Gets Me Down

from The Birth and Death of Meaning by The Debutante Hour

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People are trying to get and break and destroy you,
People are going to get whatever they want.
Hurricanes blow through in torrents drunk, shipwrecked as sailors,
No place is safe for a con man and his debutante.

Your wine stained old curtain got lost in a sudden tornado,
Your cabaret girls and their wigs hopped a train to LA.
The auctioneer sold the menagerie off for mere pebbles,
There was nothing to do but to get on your knees and pray.

Lord, I can’t help it, I feel so unnecessary.
Lord, I’m redundant and worry that one day I’ll drown.
Well I’m not the lord and you didn’t ask my opinion,
but I gotta say honey your worldview gets me down.

La la la Stringbean it was a joke, the ox and his yoke, we were all damned.
Tra la la Stringbean you were a villain I was a damsel it was a scam.

You locked the door one two three four click clock click clack times,
Certain the god of the sea was conspiring to flood out all the bad ones.
All signs were pointing to hell and then straight to the devil,
Weeks passed on the couch, we read Sartre when we wanted some fun.

Then one Sunday morning I ran for the next locomotive,
My favorite stockings got left in the frenzied despair.
But the one little token of you I could not forsake, dear,
Was the lock I had cut of your cherry red clown colored hair.

You always sang
Lord….

I’ve made a new friend and he’s world worn and cautious as I am.
He’s hopeful to boot it’s an easier premise to take.
He’s no evil villain but more than a little vaudevillian,
When we laugh at the meaning of things there’s not too much at stake.

Lord…

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from The Birth and Death of Meaning, released March 21, 2010
guest musicians: drums - Brian Viglione, Tuba - Joe Exley

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