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Running The Fives

from Collection by The Monologue Bombs

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Fifteen didn't even count, baby-blind with marbles in my mouth. Cuyahoga girls with knockin' knees. Grinding my gears up against the trees. Fifteen was a chorus on the breeze. Twenty came and set me free, miles between the ties that bind and me. I'd play the jester all through college town, and razor-wire girls would cut me down. A good day at twenty was just above the ground. At twenty-five, I was sorted out, drunk on the restaurant raids of the new south. Counter girls would wink at what I said and teach me how to touch them in their beds. At twenty-five, I was way ahead. Thirty was a nervous laugh. Counter girls wised up and whistled past. I lost track of the door men and the bands and lost some lovers with my sleight-of-hand. At thirty I just scattered them like sand. Hit thirty-five and up came the fear. I went to seven weddings in a year. I saw seven sailors come back home to shore. They took their mothers waltzin' across the floor. Thirty-five brought darkness to my door. One bar-back knows my name and the rest are polite as I settle up and stumble home tonight to taped-up pictures of all my cousins' kids. To a rented, littered room far off the grid, where I'll sleep with everything I did.

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from Collection, released December 30, 2017
Scott David Phillips: songwriting, vocals, accordion

Recorded and mixed by David Mueller at his house in Raleigh NC.

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Solo music project of Scott David Phillips. Raleigh, North Carolina.

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