EVERYDAY WHORE
/EVERYDAY WHORE
Joe Turner
(Inspired by a great song by Tom Waits-see it on- Utube)
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It’s dark and it’s early, I’m pissed off and surly, half asleep and awake.
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Some woman mumbles, groggy and grumbles, how long is this gonna take …..to
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Waltz with Matilda, waltzing Matilda,,,,, you’ll come a waltzing
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Matilda with me
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My life’s in the morgue on an old stainless steel tray.
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Laid out and splayed out in a clinical, medical way …..and see--
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Life has the last impersonal say ……says
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Waltz with Matilda, waltzing Matilda,,,,, you’ll come a waltzing
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Matilda with me
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You’re tools and the fools of your own DNA
Use it or lose it savor, abuse it, spill it out on the floor.
You’re it’s erection, it’s natural selection , but mostly it’s everyday whore to……..
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Waltz with Matilda, waltzing Matilda,,,,, you’ll come a waltzing
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Matilda with me
I’m tired-looking in the tray with the flexible drain
Naked, alone. Nothing to lose, nothing to gain.
It‘s Sisyphus all over and over but no rolling stone.
You just keep rolling and rolling till you`re alone. And you…..
Waltz with Matilda, waltzing Matilda… you`ll come a waltzing
Matilda with me…..