The Contender

from Propose a Toaster by Chase and the Barons

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Stuck in the middle of this place
No expression on my face
A familiar sounding phrase

I am pulling at the veil
Wonder what it might avail
While my palms are turning pale
I will rinse them in the
well flooded with wishes
Where the quarters swim like fishes
This explicit narcissism is submissively suspicious I said

This is
Quite illogical
I’d say
Quite impossible
I don’t
Think I’ll ever know
What’s goin on
But here we are going over again
The same old cracks in this fresh pavement
And here we are going over again
The contender will always contend

There’s a serpent at my feet
And he’s tempting me to eat
From a tree that’s next to me

Let the lions take control
While the prophets just get old
And the poets turn to prose

This is
Quite illogical
I’d say
Quite impossible
I don’t
Think I’ll ever know
What’s goin on
But here we are going over again
The same old cracks in this fresh pavement
And here we are going over again
The contender will always contend

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from Propose a Toaster, released April 11, 2017

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"A Day Off / Treehouse" single available everywhere Feb 15.

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