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A Hard Rain Keeps Falling

from Lexicon Carnival by The Messy Jacksons

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When I woke up this morning
My alarm clock was snoring
But I couldn't climb out of my bed
Limbs tired and heavy
They were pinned under a Chevy
And my bedsheets were made out of lead
The source of my ennui
Is this meteorology
Got me cooped up like cattle in a shed

And I'm starting to wish I were dead
All this drippin and a-droppin on my head
Has got me flippin and a-floppin
Like a bottle-nosed dolphin
Who's trapped in a tuna fish net

I'm starvin for my friends
But this rain it never ends
And I'm slowly growin more and more insane
I've been talkin to the walls
Holdin tea parties with dolls
But the conversations are dull and inane
I resolve to break free
Pray those drops don't swallow me
Or they'll drop me in a shallow muddy grave

Sometimes you just gotta be brave
But this drippin and a-droppin on my brain
Is the clippin and a-cloppin
Of a cavalry stalkin
Their prey runnin scared out on the plains

The rain stung my eyes
I was flung from my bike
And I tried to break my fall with my face
As my life passed before me
Seemed like God might abhor me
So I started humming the tune to Amazing Grace
He sniffed the bullshit in my story
Shipped me off to purgatory
And denied me his loving embrace

But hey, at least I finally left my place
Now I got a drippin and a-droppin out in space
It's the tickin and a-tockin of a jailhouse clock
Whose hands are always losing a race

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from Lexicon Carnival, released February 11, 2015

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Do like like funny sad sound words? Then Messy Jacksons have good sound words for you. You like finger string picky fretty? Messy Jackson have other good sound words for you. Messy Jacksons is sometimes one, sometimes many, sometimes acoustic, sometimes electronic, always funny sad sound words from the Portland that stole its name from the other Portland. ... more

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