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Nothin's Happenin'

from Nowhere Fast by Kyp Harness

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NOTHIN’S HAPPENIN’

You’ve been a two-faced little weasel
Since the day you started breathin’
You’re a small-time wheeler dealer
With big dreams of breakin’ even
Nobody ever liked you,
Not even your own mother
You got your eyes on the Virgin Mary
But your mind’s still in the gutter

You’ve been a foul-mouthed little beggar
Since the day that you dropped out
Of your mother’s womb on a cold afternoon
In the street scum slum where you grew up
Standin’ on the corner waitin’ for another sucker,
Some silly little fucker
With a silver pocket watch
While your eyeballs they be jumpin’
To the woman that you’re cruisin’,
One hand on your holster and the other on your crotch

It’s the story of the streets, where it’s eat or be eaten
And you don’t think once and you don’t think twice
About takin’ some harmless old woman with a necklace
And carvin’ her up on the end of your knife
It’s your life, it’s your business
It’s survival of the fittest,
Scrapin’ through the sewers like an alley cat in heat
It’s breakin’ jaws and bustin’ heads
For another crust of bread
Standin’ in the doorway, shakin’ off the heat

Oh, oh, nothin’s happenin’
Oh, nothin’s happenin’ tonight

When your phone don’t ring and your bird don’t sing
And you can’t get loose and you can’t get tight
Till you’re just another beast
Beggin’ for release
In the decimated ruins of your holocaust night
Swimmin’ like a foetus through the cesspool city
For the sticky satisfaction that your sickness craves
Slidin’ down the ladder from the poorhouse to the slammer
With a ten-pound hammer strapped between your legs

You know the game’s against you
But still you believe that you’ll conquer it
Like a man who dreams of paradise
While he’s up to his ears in his own shit
Like a dyin’ man with a lottery ticket in his hand
Or a useless crucifixion in a God forsaken land
Your suffering is infinite, but I don’t give a damn
And the force that drives you to it
I will never understand

Oh, oh, nothin’s happenin’
Oh, nothin’s happenin’ tonight

Like a dog that eats its vomit
Like a thief that keeps returnin’ to the scene of his crime
You fed upon your misery
Until it finally ate away your mind
But still you smiled just the same as you played your game
With the faith that you’d come through it
Till bit by bit you slowly died
And you never even knew it

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from Nowhere Fast, released October 13, 2014

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