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PAINTCHIPS AND FINGERPAINT

Ball and chain on the punishment rocks

Lipstick letters in the female box

Sixteen candles burning eighteen holes

Thrift store devils claiming talk show hosts

I’ll sit right ‘round waiting it on

Sanity’s been here and gone.

Shut my mouth with a lion inside

Run and hide to my suicide bride

When I think I’m losing ground.

Where the fast lane slows you down, and everybody’s overdosing.

D.O.A. Paintchips and fingerpaints.

I’ll ponder pretty things and wander through a life I thought I knew.

Necktie noose choking lawsuit throats.

Outside punch lines, inside jokes.

Fixed on glue for the broken hearts

Funeral parties in the graveyard parks.

Empty pockets full of doldrums fills

Stomach ills and wonder pills.

Cheap thrills cashed with sobriety checks

Buzz kills stashed with anxiety stress.

And I think I’m moving out

Where the fast lane slows you down, and everybody’s overdosing.

D.O.A. Paintchips and fingerpaints.

I’ll ponder pretty things and wander through a life I thought I knew.

So, let’s ignite tonight.
I’ll breathe you in and feel you all around.

A magic carpet ride beneath the moonlight’s glowing lunar gown.

Where we’ll be overdosing.

D.O.A.

Paintchips and fingerpaints

And swallow disco queens misplaced in reverie

Arsenic and evergreen fade into memory

And wander through a life I thought I knew.