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Stacy wrote and performed this song for The Bushwick Book Club performance of songs inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's DESPAIR. It was her first time participating.

For more Stacy Rock, please visit stacyrock.com.

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I've got a memory it burns like a camera
or maybe it's vile, damned, ill-turned etcetera
It sits on my pen and draws up these letters

The address is posted the same as my doorstep
Be patient my listener I won't forget
To tell this story but first
my damn french cigarette - needs re-lighting

See I'm charming, I'm witty, I'm pretty, I'm faithful
certain devious acts I find most delightful
like plotting my likeness and planning it's burial

Or watching my body writhing and sensual
From distances you'd think a lie or impossible
but now I've derailed my tale
It's all so comical - this getting caught

The structure of my ballad
Has led us all astray
My minds a loaded mousetrap
I need a clean getaway
I want a clean getaway

My pen shakes, it hesitates, my hands all a twitter
Such a delicate tale to tell with a quiver
but I know I arranged an infallible murder

An identical identity is all that I needed
to set forth my plan and so I proceeded
to hunt down my double and BAM
I shot down my freedom - the other sparrow

The mirrors a mock existance
and it holds me like a slave
and heaven's not the answer
I need a clean get away
I need a clean get away

The crime scene was left spotless
no detail left unturned
the body my mirror image
how could they have discerned

The injustice played against me
is clear as that ashtray
with simple minds around me
I'll make my clean get away
(for I am just a sparrow)
I'll make a clean get away
(I am just a fiddler)
I'll make a clean getaway
(I am just an actor)
clear the stage, for my clean
getaway

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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