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Falling in and out of sleep, I’ve heard the rest of the world awake
When I get up the feeling is always the same, I wonder how much can I take.
Do I have a mind for anything else? Do I have choices and spies?
There’s only one way that I look at the world. I see it with my regular eyes.

Look at the rake in his middle age, aping the gravitas
Look at my teeth and the spaces between and tell me what kind of ice cream I love.
You and me, and the three of we, and the oligarchs
And the dogs that bark and the dogs that mark, we all have something that gets us up.

We’re the mosquitoes. We’re sucking your blood by the hour
We’re the mosquitoes. We have no respect for your power
Couples are made and corners are stained in living sweat and grace
With broken wings and broken eyes and everything else put in its place

Oh, I’m out
‘Tis as luck to be born as to lay down
And look up at the stars
We all have clouds coming out of our mouths
And guts between the two

On a perfect moonlit night, you can hear a party far away
If only one of us can make up our minds, then maybe it should stay that way
Or dip our bills and say in voices shrill, “There is no other way.”
And toss away convention for the better, the worse, or the same.

Am I the kind of this who that?
If you knew it before then it’s a matter of fact.
The leather slapped around the last. I never saw it coming.
You can lie you can cheat and you can rob,
But don’t give a flying fuck like me a job.
I can feel your lifeblood coursing through your keys.
When you feel a pinch just slap your knee and say…

Oh, I’m lucky
I haven’t got a thing
When he came around and asked for money
I bleeped him with my key ring
Do I bother?
I do what I do to win
Ommatidia
Lay down your collars and let us in

We’re the mosquitoes. We’re sucking your blood by the hour
We’re the mosquitoes. We have no respect for your je ne sais quoi
I’ve got one little thing on my tiny mind,
I want to get a little taste before I die
Thin our ranks as you might; in the end we shall be multiplied.

So, shade our tiny bodies from the sky.
I haven’t got a thing in mind
Cover from the stars and sleep among the stings.
Just as you are, and will be again.

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from Gold, Sapphire & Plum, released April 10, 2013

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Looks good in a coonskin cap, but then you can't just wear one of those all the time without having to answer a lot of questions.

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