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Section titles:

I. People
II. Too Soon
III. Ante
IV. Life Is So Simple
V. Say It
VI. Thank You, Goodbye

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-People-
(words by Bukowski)

-Too Soon-

When I grow old, who will I be?
When I look back, what will I see?
Everything worth living for ends too soon

-Ante-

Spent my life winning favor
But I can’t win my own
Give my heart to strangers
Still I don’t feel loved

A man can play his cards
But he can’t choose the deck
And it helps if he gambles
I haven’t gambled yet

-Life Is So Simple-

Hope is a glimmer inside an endless tunnel
Balance is the vortex in the center of a funnel
Reason is looking underneath the question
Truth is rarely true

Life is so simple
So simple that I’ll never understand

Everything is complex but nothing is complicated
And in the stillness, everything’s still animated
It can’t be summed up in a single statement

-Say It-

See you sittin’ real still
With a grimace on your mug
Just open your mouth
Let the words fall out
I can’t read your mind
By looking at your head
So spit that shit out
Move the fuck on
You’re wasting my time
Spinning your wheels
So open your mouth
Make each word count

Just fuckin’ say it

-Thank You, Goodbye-

Thank you and goodbye

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from Five Exquisite Corpses [unabridged], released June 22, 2014

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Elegant Mess Los Angeles, California

Elegant Mess is the combined effort of recording artists/producers/film music composers/weirdos Howard Buckwold and Preston Gabriel Garland.

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