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Waves Of Words

from Relaxing At Gunpoint by Jazz Cattle

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lyrics

WAVES OF WORDS

Waves of words
Drowning in the dot.com ocean's roaring
Waves of words
A-B-Seagulls above swooping, soaring
A literary pool
Awash with not-my-type writers
A Fourth Estate school
Expelling spreadsheet generation detritus

Waves of words
Bursting my thinks bubbles
Waves of words
Sink down into the surfeit of troubles
Salt in the wound
Friendship sunk, I cling to an epilogue
Will I be marooned
For leaving her seabed smeared in whitewash?

Drifting like a happy-ever-rafter till I hit dry-wit land
No exclamation marks the spot where I washed up on the ampersand

Waves of words
From a trickle of Chinese whispers
Waves of words
To a tsunami of stutterers and lispers
Was I insane
To walk the plank with salty sea-dog brothers
Down the drain
Dirty bookworms revert to type under the covers

Waves of words
Lapping the shores of Hello and Goodbye
Waves of words
Can't fathom the depths, there's only white between the lines
Sent to Helvetica
For diving for pearls and making the present tense
Sub-sub-editor
Please don't put your full stop on my life sentence.

And if the inkwells run dry and the paper boats are scrapped, depleted
Will the story of our love be spiked, abandoned, uncompleted?

credits

from Relaxing At Gunpoint, released September 10, 2012
Lyrics: Paul Hamilton
Music: Andrew Petrie & Paul Hamilton
Orchestrated and performed by Petrie.
Lead & backing vocals: Hamilton.
High backing vocal on fade-out: Petrie.

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