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Her voice is a deathless song

Rock of the world, founded on a fairies wing




Her voice is full of money

You can't repeat the past

She used to understand me

In Louisville she moved fast




And we rose and fell in that

We jingled and jangled in it

Oh the cymbals' song a that

Sounded like this




There is no difference between men

a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm

A singing compulsion, a whispered listen

An arrangement of words never to be played again




A decade of loneliness

I am one of the few honest people I've ever known




She asked me questions

In her low, thrilling voice

I followed it up and down

Compelled I had no choices




And we rose and fell in that

We jingled and jangled in it

Oh the cymbals' song of that

Sounded like this



A singing compulsion, a whispered listen

a thinning briefcase of enthusiasm

There is no difference between men

An arrangement of words never to be played again




And now I'm thirty and now i'm thirty years old

A thinning list of single women to know

There's a big difference between the sick and the well

Thinning hair and if I die who will tell




My greatest fear in life

Is that someday I am gonna die alone




Of course the funny thing

Everybody dies alone

People all around

You close your eyes you're on your own




So let's rise and fall in this

Let's jingle jangle in it

And the cymbals' song of it

Will sound like this

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from Bushwick Book Club presents The Great Gatsby, released May 22, 2012

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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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