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Gregor on a Good Day

from Fits and Starts by Plush Gordon

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If your read Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," it turns out that Gregor Samsa has a few halfway decent days in the middle. This song is about those days. Also, the instrumental break in the middle is pretty cool.

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Turn the key but turn it slowly.
Give me time to hide.
The face I wear in this place
Is not meant for the outside,
But don't worry sister.
Don't cry for me.
Inside these walls, I'm
Happy and free
To wander unimpeded,
To spend some time alone,
To dance upon the ceiling,
And live as if my life might be my own.

Turn your face away from mine.
A beast is all I am,
The family pride gone bug-eyed,
No longer quite a man.
But don't worry sister.
Don't cry for me.
Inside these walls, I'm
Happy and free
To wander unimpeded,
To spend some time alone,
To dance upon the ceiling,
And breathe as if my life might be my own.

Turn the key and turn it quickly,
Grete, lock me in.
Tell the neighbors that I've died.
Let the gray world spin.
But don't worry sister.
Don't cry for me.
Inside these walls, I'm
Happy and free
To wander unimpeded,
To spend some time alone,
To dance upon the ceiling,
And dream as if my life might be my own.

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from Fits and Starts, released September 15, 2018

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