Caribbean Night At The Jew Frat

from Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell and the Flying Typewriters

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I don't smoke because if I did
I would smoke CBCs or Marlboro Reds because
You'll die from any kind of cigarette
But I'd make sure that I felt like it

I would smoke my lungs black
I'd smoke holes in my neck
I would smoke until my chest was filled with fire
Until my skin was dry and cracked
Would break with every bend and stretch
I would smoke until my body got too tired

I don't drink because if I did
I would drink myself into oblivion
I would pickle my liver in gin
I would fall back down, never get up again

I would puke up my life
Flush it straight down the pipes
Hey, out of sight, out of mind!
I would marinate my organs
Filled up and drained again
I'd be the epitome of a vessel poorly designed

I don't trust me with me
I don't trust me with anything
I'm a self-fulfilling prophecy on a road to self-annihilation
Through public acts of humiliation for the sake of entertainment
I don't trust me with me
I don't trust me with anything

I don't love because if I did
I don't think I could handle it
I have to try so hard when we kiss
Because I can feel myself slipping in
With every conversation, with every vacation
I'm slow-motion stumbling in
Against my better judgment, I'm starting to let go of it
I'm letting that if turn into a did

(Kobe!)
(Bryant!)

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from Shooting An Elephant, released September 21, 2011

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Folk-Punk(ish) band from Flint and Hartland, Michigan. You can also find us around Ypsilanti quite often. We love you.

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