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Brunswick Avenue Blues

from God's Footstool by Kyp Harness

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BRUNSWICK AVENUE BLUES

Everybody wants to be a big star
Everybody thinks they’re gonna go far
Just a pretty face and a guitar
is all you need to score

Everybody wants to be a big name
Everybody knows the game’s insane
Still they go ahead and play it anyway
but no-one knows what for

Everybody’s talkin’ about Jesus
Everybody’s tryin’ to feed their egos
With their Bankamericards and their Visas
and a bucket full of fruit

Everybody’s searchin’ for the garden
Everybody’s waitin” to be pardoned
With a suitcase full of the blues and a hard-on
in a blue seersucker suit

Everybody’s lookin’ for protection
Everybody needs some direction
Everybody believes they’re next in
line for the big time

Everybody wants to be the big man
Everybody’s tryin’ to get sun-tanned
Listenin’ to their own fan
club screamin’ in their ears

Everybody wants to get a medal
For bein’ such a clever little fellow
Everybody wants a Lincoln Continental
with the trunk full of cold beers

Everybody’s tryin’ to get to heaven
With a holy bible and a nuclear weapon
Shoved down their pants with the president”s blessing
lubricated with a bottle of tears

Everybody’s lookin’ for connections
Everybody needs some direction
Everybody believes they’re next in
line for the big time

Now everybody’s thinkin’ ‘bout money
Still everybody still goes to bed hungry
Everybody says they think that’s funny
but no-one’s laughin’ much

Everybody’s lookin for another
Way to get some bread and butter
Everybody’s lookin’ for their mother
or an inexpensive crutch

Everybody’s always in a hurry
Like they’re runnin’ in the Kentucky Derby
Everybody’s nervous as a turkey
on Thanksgiving day

Everybody knows their days are numbered
Still nobody even stops to wonder
Till they’re buried six feet under
in a silk upholstered crate

Everybody lookin’ for protection
Everybody needs some direction
Everybody believes they’re next in
line for the big time

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from God's Footstool, released October 5, 2014

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