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Broken

from No Photographs by Jason Vitelli

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lyrics

Wish there was some way
to get outta this.
The boss got all swearing
with a head full of piss.
Wish there was a hole
that I just could climb away in.

Down in this mine,
a field of ashes and sticks
while the birds and bees
whispering heads above here,
my view's aligned by the rituals
that I live by.

I don't want to be
another broken man
hissin' and hollerin'
for the next paycheck paying for my
ticket to the promise land.

Im walking back miles to my
house on this hill.
My legs are so tired; my knees
aching rain.
The howling wind is all I've got
between me and my pain.

And the thought of pushing
my hand over fist
to make just enough that I can't quit,
oh could it be, can it be a wistful
dream that will lead me astray?

But oh I don't want to be
another broken man
hissin' and hollerin'
for a new chance to revel
in the fables of circumstance.

Oh I conjure her up.
I wish her up good
and steer instead to the one place
that will hide her real soon.

Set myself upon a seat,
the barkeep brings me my drink.

And it's the same old pride
that my lies have always feigned.
I'm spending all the bread so there's
room for no change.
Killing my time, forsaking verse and
rhyme for a mere play on words.

But oh I don't want to be
another enslaved man
hissin' and hollerin'
for the next paycheck paying for my
ticket to the promise land.

Yet I am.

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from No Photographs, released January 23, 2009
Phil Robinson - harmonica

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Jason Vitelli New York, New York

Cinematic rock music with a vision; this is Jason's sound in a nutshell. His songs are vignettes, narratives, painting a picture with intertwining lyrics and melody. Much of his writing is influenced by the experimental rock of the late 1970’s, marrying folk sentiment with the avant-garde crosscurrent of Berlin era Bowie, Kate Bush, Olivier Messiaen, James Joyce and Eric Dolphy. ... more

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