Mountain Face
written in the Wild Parlour and performed live for the group. Video of the performance is at the Wild Parlour website.
Mountain Face
Face lie
Don’t trust ‘em
I fall in
I make guard rails
I wear rope
I walk slowly
But face lie
The shape of your enormous nose made me love you
What kind of fucking logic is that
Even
The thinness of your small teeth always bothered me
You’d bare them when you laughed derisively
Like life is a game to be won through superior intelligence
And…
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