Dissonance Taker

from Holy Motorway (Selected Demos 2022-2023) by Mattie Konig

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Still there’s an ear underwater in the harbours of Monaco
The big man hass your name

Still grown-ups play hide and seek in rooms they first furnished long ago
The joy of every day

And I tried (a rumour carves a shortcut in time)
And I tried (a codependent bond)
And I tried (why did I never see what this was)
And I tried (why were they always blond)

Astronauts touching down on the moon
Punctured suit, edema
Happens to everyone
Astronauts left behind, no big deal

And I tried (you sitting next to me on the bus)
And I tried (you not saying a word)
And I tried (this doorway back to defendamus)
And I tried (this Twinkie-coded cur)

And I tried (in sixteen years I’ve not changed one bit)
And I tried (a child and a clown)
And I tried (and when it’s my turn to go to Hell)
And I tried (a bearskin cap will follow me down)
And I tried
And I tried
And I tried

Dissonance taker
Took what you could and then you ran

You’ll live forever
You and your poison touch

Don’t think I’ll forget
Just what you did to me

Dissonance taker
You’re gone and I’ve had enough

I could run and run and make like I was perfectly well-adjusted
But I had to chance a look back some day
And the thing about rear views
Is that they’re closer than miles travelled might have you reckon

I could writhe and ramble and relive the echoes of teenage failure
Or the beds I thought for sure I’d die in
And no matter which was which
You’d always be there staring through the kitchen window

Oh I missed you, I loved you, I hated and I waited as ten thousand lies obscured one plaintive plea
Tell me, on the day you first spoke all the ugly truths of life
Were you just as scared as me?

Dissonance taker
Took what you could and then you ran

You’ll live forever
You and your poison touch

Don’t think I’ll forget
Just what you did to me

Dissonance taker
You’re gone and I’ve had enough

And I lied
And I lied
And I lied (but I don’t get to tie it up neat)
And I lied (but then again who does)

Long John Silver
Long John Silver
Long John Silver
Long John Silver

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from Holy Motorway (Selected Demos 2022-2023), released December 15, 2023

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