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Call Me a Defeatist

from Common Houseplants EP (demo) by Pete Davis

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This was originally intended to be the start of a new full-length, but then I started getting ideas for the Waterworks and decided to clump some of these songs together as an EP.

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Hold on, you're gonna be alright.
Don't make any sudden moves or in seconds you'll be parallel to the ground.
Freeze and leave the laces loose, on your knees you go, hands behind your head.
You thought you'd be forever.
You thought I'd leave forever.
I tried to keep together.
Man, hold it together, or break out, full-stride.

I'll pin you to the floor and let the sweat just trickle down.
Look at me, look at me, you won't gain a thing.
You live one life and you take one at least, so just drop it. Let it die. It's over now, just let it go.

(Break away. If they ask, I've gone away. If I seem so lost these days, it's none of your concern, for this I pray, you'll never lay with me again, you won't breathe in my air again)

Sit reclined. Shut your eyes.
Call me a defeatist when you kick me in the spine, well I'm cold and all the ground. Well nothing is fair.
I'd like to paint a portrait with a halo over me, but I couldn't sign my name, because no one would believe.

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from Common Houseplants EP (demo), released August 1, 2003
P Davis:
Acoustic Guitar
Vocals

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