Concrete Walls

from Addicted To The Flute by John Carroll

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lyrics

I must be living in an abstract thought
And nothing gives me more pleasure
Than getting used to seeing concrete walls
That's where your eyes used to be

My friends have heard about your routine visits
Can't think of a better distraction
I'm getting used to dreams of concrete walls
That's where your pictures used to be.

We're not casualties of war before we've
Started something new.
There's no trauma yet,
Your broken-hearted days are in pursuit.

I've got to paint the concrete twice
I've got to know that you're really committed to me.
I've got to right those broken nights
I've wanna know that you're really committed to me
I've got to paint the concrete twice
I've seen heaven,
I see it in you,
And these concrete walls.

In these concrete walls.

I must be driven to erase the distinctions
And nothing gives me more pleasure
I'm not so different from these concrete walls
You're greyed perception of me.
It must be hard to monitor my calls
Indulge in the crafty diversions.
When all my dreams are filled with concrete walls
These flags are shades of defeat.

We're all victims facing hostile forces
Faced with these inner fights
I'll include you in lines that I wrote
cos i thought that my wreckage had soured the bite.

I've got to paint the concrete twice
I've got to know that you're really committed to me.
I've got to write those broken nights
I've wanna know that you're really committed to me
I've got to paint the concrete twice
I've seen heaven,
I see it in you,
And these concrete walls.

In these concrete walls.

Corporate warhorse.
Concrete walls.
Concrete Warhols.
Concrete walls.

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from Addicted To The Flute, released August 19, 2020

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John Carroll Hangzhou, China

John Carroll is a songwriter and artist from Limerick, Ireland. Carroll's songs can be introspective acoustic narratives, or tongue-in-cheek tunes about acrophobic atheist taikounauts, all topped off with lashings of lyrics and phrases influenced by his adopted home in Hangzhou, China. ... more

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