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Parlour Blues

from Cenotaph Tapes by John Carroll

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lyrics

I looked at you one morning
From a ditch above the wall
You were a cow
Your bell rings when I fall
The pastures and the fields where
Your pattern's black and white
We’re dots upon the landscape
But our friendship lasts for life

You looked at the stars and
And you said they looked the same
You were a cow
For the abattoir a gain
The parlour and the maiden
Her signals were so clear
We’re specks under the sunlight
But our friendship lasts for years

Since the world came down
Forgot about the teenage culture call
When you’re drugged up on a mountain of being bored
And it seems too late to turn back now
Like years
Since the world came down around us
Forgot about the teenage culture call
When you’re drugged up on a mountain of being bored
And it seems too soon to turn around

We watched a late night movie
All the actors looked the same
You were a cow
Didn’t notice anyway
The pictures and the memories
I hung along the wall
Reminded you of something
But our friendship said it all

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from Cenotaph Tapes, released April 12, 2014

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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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