Name: Dumber, Calmer, More Trusting
Duration: P00H03M21S
Description: Home-demo, first recording of song written summer 2010.

Dumber, Calmer, More Trusting

from James Michael Shannon Reilly by Pastel Pistol

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Home-demo, first recording of song written summer 2010.

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You've got your sorrow, you've got your sorrows
You're pink and hollow
And filled with shadow
You'll do anything to disappear
And you know it

Your posture's failing
Excuses trailing
A tongue on fire
A dick for hire
It's not the same as it used to be
And you know it

The idea of god never proved itself through
promise of love or threat of hell
What's a man to do about the lies he tells
To sell himself to the wedding bells

Well, it's no joke when my mouth makes the sound
That sounds like the words
"Hey, let's get out of town"
I'll do anything just to disappear
And I know it

I hit the halfway mark and I'm sorry to say
That things were better then
Than they are today
I should've been dumber, calmer, more trusting
Anything but this

Take a look now
It's breathtaking to see
This whole worlds for sale and it's gonna go cheap
Just point my fathers chair towards the TV
Then cut the line and be free

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from James Michael Shannon Reilly, track released January 1, 2011

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