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    phlegm (brad hamers & slomoshun) - debut LP 2002 Three Sides Of A Circle (3SC)
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lyrics

apple skin (456), peach pit (457), watermelon rind (458)

uneasy stomach
empty milk gallon
jug-gle my heart and my brain
the audience claps to the beating
of my childhood
back-lashed by belts
welted principles through eyes undotted
cross my mind like j-walking through
writer’s blocks
i stop at a fruit stand
to pick up an orange
imagine your entire life was selling fruit to strangers
watching them unpeel your purpose right in front of you
then walking away, backs turned
drifting down the sidewalk like dry leaves
that were dropped from their mother’s arms and twigged fingers
i only like to listen to female vocalists because they take
the place of my mother
so here i am, a full grown candle stick
with fire in my eyes
standing in puddles of myself
i’ve got wet feet and a strong urge to cry
but nowhere to drip into
cookie cutter images of my chocolate chip
wants and dreams
i’m a lost page from a book
asking directions back to my daily bind from
a gas station attendant pumping his own heart
with a broken nozzle
book worms on fish hooks
food for my full plate of too much
to take care of in a day,
over-packed weeks,
bulging suitcase of a life
in a fish bowl with card sharks
gambling myself away
but i keep an objective fish-eye-lens perspective
an optimist amidst all these suicide kings
poking their queens in the heart
for a self-esteem booster
power sits on 2 telephone books
with its elbows on the dinner table
all this feet tapping and knuckle cracking
make a bad instrumental for our bland conversations
we all make small talk and buy large mirrors for our bedrooms
i want to fall asleep next to my life
and watch it snore all night
i need a reality check made out to cash
and a trumpet player to follow me around each day
do starving artists use their change
to buy lunch or cd’s
i want a stage made of food and
an audience with ears that work
i need a woman shaped like a candle holder
and a mother who can blossom leaves,
a father who can grow fruit,
and a full milk gallon in my refrigerator
imagine your entire life was selling
your problems to strangers
watching them unwrap your purpose
right in front of you
then drifting away like shrink-wrap in the wind
down the sidewalk

credits

from phlegm - one night stands with out of tune instruments in a room with blue wallpaper, released March 5, 2002
lyrics & vocals by Brad Hamers

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brad hamers Portland, Oregon

writer, music-maker, collage-maker,, performance-maker, loud dreamer, mental gymnast

(member of: Through Flames, Child Of No Nation, Cat Child, Dust On Snow, Two Ton Sloth, Phlegm and Al Límite Collective)

Artist at Shrine13

www.bradhamers.com
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