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Short Life

from Short Life by Short Hand

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You can wear your Church clothes to every memory from your youth
You can sense the hard truth in every memory you cut loose
You can wear a white hat or a pink hat or a black cat
You can wear a tracksuit and keep an extra tracksuit in your backpack
You can go to college, acquiring skills and mental polish
You can find a lover and chop down the tree of knowledge

You can cut through ice, through fire, through the thickness life accrues
You can drive a car through the floor, through the walls and through the roof
You can pamper your baby with lotions and fancy baths
You can dampen all your dreams before or after you dampen all of that
When your thoughts finally clear and you begin to sober up
You can syphon all of time into a tiny cup

But it's a short life and we’re here a short while
It's a short life and we wear a short smile
When you see it, you meet it, but it's a short life

You can be a prince of men or a princess of a pig
You can roll through certain hills or keep your rolling wheels well hid
You might find yourself atop a boat or a soon to be sunken ship
You might find a whip on your hip in the basement being kissed
You can employ a whole team of engineers and democrats
And if it lasts, it last long enough to reconfigure shattered facts

You can start an outlaw gang and gang up on the rich
You might quiver a whole lot or you might quiver just a little bit
You can fashion nicknames, making light of birth defects
You can ration sickness, making slightly special, special effects
You can water the plants and build a future from the past
But you better build on stone and you better build it fast

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from Short Life, released September 6, 2019

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Short Hand Muncie, Indiana

Short Hand figures that it's easier to learn to play an instrument than it is to find someone who can play it. He also figures that it's easier for him to do the writing, recording, mixing, artwork, and anything else that might need to be done. In the end, a set of sounds collect themselves into different shapes one might call "albums." Some sound like this and some sound like that. ... more

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