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Olneyville System Special EP

by Dougie Poole

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1.
“My love” she said, “Can we go on a trip before we’re old?” I told her true: “I’ll follow you to any place you go” And when I stood to pack my stuff, she sat my ass back down She said I was hers and she was mine forever, starting now Then she took two tabs out of her bag and put them in our mouths “Are we here, or did we disappear?” she said to me “We’re fine” was my reply, though I could hardly see When through the ceiling’s eye I saw us tangled on the ground Our dreams all intertwined with lies we’d told and lies we’d found She told me: “Honey, all is one” My blood ran cold with doubt Cause it’s not easy tripping with the one you love When every little feeling that you feel Is half as real, but twice as real And every word you say just goes away “Do you see the way the walls can breathe?” she might have said I might have told her “yes”, I might have thought “fuck no” instead Until indeed I watched the walls inhale and slowly fill And though outside the seasons seemed to change, the clocks were still We laughed until we cried our eyes out Clean over the hill Now, when at last the visions passed I noticed something strange Though we were more-or-less young as before, our love had aged No longer was my every word to her a song No longer did her gaze erase my everly flaw I couldn’t say what happened, only that the trip was long Cause it’s not easy tripping with the one you love When every little feeling that you feel Is half as real, but twice as real And every word you say just goes away No, it’s not easy tripping with the one you love And every little feeling that you feel Is half as real, but twice as real And every word you say just goes away
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I’ve got a toilet where my heart once was To flush out the bad love That was burying me I sent it all under the city Through old pipes and pretty Soon out to the sea There’s a full tank of gas in this little clown car Put your suitcases in We can drive til it’s morning again If that’s alright. It’s sad to say but there’s no doubt: Good flows with the bad out And spirals in kind O, the toilet where my heart once was Flushed out all the bad love And left nothing behind.
3.
I woke up driving somewhere southeast of Smithfield Doing fourteen in a fifty-five with no hands on the wheel A headlit caravan beeped trailing back behind Ahead a neon arrow glowing in the sky A voice spoke: How many turds take you? Far though the scales tip to your side How many mornings wake you To a heart-drop, sad to be alive? We have no answers for you! No holy playbook to abide Just a two wiener special Don’t you feel special? Down to the freckle? Two seagulls fly in place, suspended in the wind One to the other says “I think it’s happening again…” This guest has overstayed. This land is not my home. One last communion at the System before I go. The choir sings: How many turds take you? Far though the scales tip to your side How many mornings wake you To a heart-drop, sad to be alive? We have no answers for you! No holy playbook to abide Just a two wiener special Don’t you feel special? Down to the freckle?

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released September 22, 2016

Words and music written by Douglas Poole.
Recorded by Caleb Townsend.
Artwork by Clayton Schiff.

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Dougie Poole Brooklyn, New York

New York based Country Singer/Songwriter.

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