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Fine Is An Ugly Word (Audio Version)

Submitted by clarahendersontsa on Wed, 01/30/2013 - 5:26pm
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Fine Is An Ugly Word (Audio Version)

It’s sad when you don’t feel special no more.
Makes your thoughts all jumbled
And your smile all sore.
Makes that mask you’ve been wearing
Feel just like your skin
And I’m not sure I like
This fake skin that I’m in.

And I’m not sure I like all these cellophane people
With their looking-glass thoughts
And their dirtied up steeples
Where they pray to get by for just one little day
Where they tidy up numbers, all wasting away
With their dreams and ambitions all kept in a drawer
All locked up and socked up till they don’t shine no more

I don’t wanna get by, I don’t wanna be fine
Like the cellophane people who don’t cross the line
From there gray little quarters to their dull little lives
With their prim little daughters and their prim little wives

So I wanna be messy and make people frown!
Well, its better than having it all upside down
In a neat little smile, in its sad little way
And I’m gonna be someone who’s special
Someday.

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clara...

Submitted by ggevalt on Thu, 01/31/2013 - 10:15pm.

So I love this piece. I really do. And in listening to your two podcasts, I want to tell you that I like the one on the bottom. It's slower, firmer, more edgy. Fits the piece.

Thanks so much for sharing this.

A FAVOR to ask... can you upload as an attachment a large, HI-RES photo of yourself or of something else that might fit this piece. I want to post this on cowbird.com as part of the partnership we're doing with them.

thanks,

gg