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The Ivory

by The Grievance Club

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Check out the music video for "The Ivory" here!
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It's so easy to paint the truth you're telling when you sell the frame to fit.
Speaking only in abstractions,
I never say what's really on my mind when it matters most.

Under the gun, I will wait to queue my laments
until you are six feet buried under the bus.
I am an accessory, aiding and abetting in the murder of your character.

Please understand that all my thoughts worth half a damn
will always be a sin too late
And if a resolution's marked by preservation,
I guess my mouth moves too goddamn quickly for my pace.

But a sword undrawn is just dead weight,
and I can't reconcile the shame.
In between the ivory, I am inevitably between
my mind and the words that I eat.

Oh, it's so hard to be a fuck's worth of the person I imagine myself to be.

Please understand that all my thoughts worth half a damn
will always be two steps ahead of me.

I'm finding it hard to be worth more
than the words I eat each day.

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released November 20, 2015
Produced and Mixed by Steve Perrino at Compass Audio
Mastered at Sun Room Audio in New York
Artwork design by Courtney Emery
(Check out more of her work at www.courtneyemery.xyz !)

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