In the Gutter Like a Poet

from Happy Birthday Forever by Folk is People

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I was too proud to say I’m sorry
Packed my pillowcases full and fled
I walked for miles into the wild abyss
Sometimes I pray to die in the gutter like a poet
Am I a pile of books to burn or to be read?
Am I a pile of books to burn or to be read?

I fought to fly instead fell
Kick the kill switch on the carousel
All the white noise spilled out from my head
The idled minded clenched fists, my judges at their pulpits
Just spiders spinning stories from their web
They’ll bleed you bone dry and leave you for dead

Oh my god, what a strange remorse
Am I the monsters in my head?
We were warned to abstain, burdened and afraid
For the architects sake, do we rebuild?

So I resigned myself to madness
There was blood I gave and tears I kept
I buried all hope deep inside my chest
Ascending through spindrift, rolling stone like Sisyphus
How time it ticks and taunts us into death
As we wait around for something that hasn’t happened yet

Oh my god, what a strange remorse
Am I the monsters in my head?
If we are one in the same, then whose to blame?
For the architects sake, we rebuilt

Save yourself from this impossible hell
Say goodbyes, sever ties you threaded oh so well
If the bridge won’t catch fire, I’ll tear it down myself
There’s no one left to help

Oh my god, what a strange remorse
Am I the monsters in my head?
We were warned to abstain, burdened and afraid
For the architects sake, do we rebuild?

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from Happy Birthday Forever, released March 21, 2020

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Folk is People Jacksonville, Florida

Folk is People is a Jacksonville-based indie folk project led by singer-songwriter and dad joke expert, Stacey Bennett. Her music is crafted into a melodic blend of stringed and percussive instruments backed by her driving voice. Folk is People's upcoming release, Happy Birthday Forever, is a tribute to the dead and dying, Sisyphus, and the cataclysmic struggle to move forward through madness. ... more

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