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MY LIFE!

MY LIFE!

MY LIFE IS A CATASTROPHE OF
BROKEN-HEARTED MEMORIES AND PROMISES I
HAD TO BREAK AND COMPROMISES, LIES AND
OLD MISTAKES

MY LIFE!

MY LIFE IS LIKE A SPIDER WEB
INSIDE MY HEAD WHERE THINGS ARE DEAD
OR DYING FAST FOM POISON GAS
THAT MAKES ME GASP
AND I CANπT FIND MY PATH

MY LIFE!

MY LIFE IS LIKE A WICKED CURSE
WHERE SCARY PEOPLE DO THEIR WORST
THEY TURN MY HAND AGAINST MY HEART
AND SQUASH MY HEAD AND
PULL MY SOUL APART

MY LIFE IS LIKE A WISHING WELL
AMBITIONS SWELL AND OVERFLOW
THE BOUNDS OF MY IDENTITY
I CANπT REMEMBER WHICH OF US IS ME

MY LIFE!

MY LIFE IS A GEOGRAPHY
A PINBALL GAME MADE OUT OF ME
WHERE BODY PARTS LIKE KNEES AND EARS
AND DOUBTS AND FEARS FROM ALL THE YEARS ARE STORED

MY LIFE IS NEW IMPROVED AND HIGH TECH
FANTASIES COME TRUE AND SEXY
HEARTBEAT OF AMERICA
I TUMBLE LIKE THE WALL OF JERICHO

MY LIFE IS AN EXCITING BLEND OF
COMEDY AND HIGH ADVENTURE
TRUE ROMANCE AND BIG SUCCESS
IπVE GOT IT ALL AND LIVE IT TO EXCESS

MY LIFE HAS THE AROMA OF A SKATEBOARD IN A COMA
WITH A WOODEN DUCK WHO NEVER CRIES AND
LOTS OF LUCK AND LOTS OF ALIBIS

MY LIFE IS SUCH A POWER GAME
THAT EVERYBODY FEARS MY NAME
AND NO ONE MAKES A MOVE WITHOUT MY SAY
I MAKE THEM CRAWL FOR MY OKAY

MY LIFE!

MY LIFE IS WHERE MY DREAMS COME TRUE
FROM WISHING ON A STAR AND YOU
CAN SEE IπM SUCH A HAPPY GUY
IπM NEVER BLUE AND I WILL NEVER DIE

© PAUL MCMAHON 1987

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from The Rain and other Stuff, released July 7, 1991

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Paul McMahon Woodstock, New York

From a musical family he explored folk, jug, blues and rock quitting music at 20 for art, returning as a punk rocker at 27. Then a long oddysey, solo and band in search of the real real deal; the songs becoming a diary of psychological and spiritual experience; shamanism and ordination as an Interfaith minister.
January 2020 tour of DC Ba Ph & Bk was his first at 69 organized by Goodflavor45
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