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Easy To Be

by Tinkerer

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1.
Nobody believes in the other in you I don't either from care can we ever be sundered time to time I still wonder as the hail fell hard the slogans did too crack like heavenly thunder inside of the eye of unreasoned wolves hazy left right plunder there's nothing left here today for the honest pauper but a friendly hand comes right by floating down the neighbourhood gutter in great quantity, passions doled their saying free trust is a dream dreamed piping was it different some time ago or is the illusory moon waning a lapse in characters common don't mean we got to see it coming though a bruise is a boost in most cases are we still friends? throw me a bone will ya?
2.
I was living up to the life That I’d found on the steps of some morning forgetting mired with the guilt of yesterday trying to remember its gone There were some words I’d known all scrambled now, some poem I cannot concentrate at all as tv is a blaring as the false prophet's preaching as the college rebel's lecturing as their loud, so ‘s the crowd and I’d just like to know, that I know what I don’t at all, nothing more I think I'm pretty sure the windows rattle from the cheers for wars I hear a groan cause my head is split between the enlightened and the stoned I tire sometimes of standing between the truths so trifling and all the striving for surviving surely it cannot be this hard all the time Do I be in deeds of choosing or am I just a mime?
3.
Jot dot jot dot Jot dot jot oh we are a jealous lot I know it when I see the lecherous jolt Jot dot jot dot Jot dot jot Darting eyeball skimming scheming sometimes spiritual fervor, sometimes lottery jam. - Oh is it ambition, coming and knocking or deathly critters to off away be fending Jot dot jot dot Jot dot jot Between the waves of noise and silence, nosy shadows silhouetting the jot dot jot of a mutters reflecting - From where, from what, comes this pounding?! jot dot jot dot jot dot jot Jot dot jot dot Jot dot jot The curator's editing the directing censor a knife, an image, whatsapp the times, a message is nothing but a message - Unsuitable, suitors, to Odysseus's wife is good, is not, is sour as limes its just water that wont turn to wine - Prostrate before all gods, upshut my ambition lying just to be divine Jot dot jot dot jot
4.
The day wears on so long my friend its not as funny as it first seemed It’s been here from before you arrived dragging the time on all over your mind He said coyly as he turned to jim it was the man from Reality You’ll do well boy to take your leave don't take it all too seriously These days it's too much commitment just to joke and its a joke to be committed you see Jim learnt a lot those few years lifting rocks and shouting cheers Standing in back rows just playing for the man from Reality Then one day Jim saw the light burning up eyeballs it was golden bright Felt the swell that all us do was the call of ambition's due Jim tossed a scheme round his head a battle raged inside to make sense of it Then patron saviour walks right on by to make love to the dancers left his stuff on the stool For greed or fate Jim couldn't help it unsure but he found a .45 and some courage Bang was heard in the night of the day in a pool lay the man from reality His soul was gone Now most surely as was the money And jim from the country And poor old patron left with his honey and a smoking gun right where he left it Was it jim whodunit I can't confirm or deny it I just always believe what the papers printed Don’t call me a scoundrel just hold on a minute i'm just singing a song you can take the words or leave it
5.
Sometimes the suns ray it stings the skin puts a mind right to a place its been things are different now concede they say but it still stings the same Sometimes the paranoia it gets to your head it makes you a real sad sight indeed makes me wonder why I ever bothered thats what she told me the other day Sometimes the good things they roll right by in a waking moment I Scrambled, was a meter shy you dream too much Kafka screamed in an instant id forsake the pages and dreams just for another day Sometimes the harsh tonguelines they stick so cruel i know into the gut between sorriness and an eternal what thank goodness for metaphor i was beaten good see, please stay I was trying to say god knows i need your company sometimes things do work themselves right out not often enough but ill shut this mouth before things go south there's nothing to be said except its a marvel you're here with me
6.
I was born inside a food court spoon stuck in a mouth _ full of hysteric tongue screaming for salvation, salivating I was saving all the change that I could jammed it all in my pockets in my hair in my mouth in my shoes anywhere and with anyone that I could all to buy me some dreaming I was taught under the sign of the cursed dollar washed to a fade, a shade, ragged collar, now im not sure anymore if it was white or blue i only know the threads have come so loose then one fine blue day an artist from far away shes asking me hey man what's got your palms, knees, face and spirit bruising I smiled like i do in a naivety so gaily said was from my crawling my lady, upon all fourly its a long long long story so heres the short version A gang of questions had me blinded binded in some ecstacy quite a joke really couldn't think too clearly couldn't hold anything too dearly down the path I went to see both ways curious cat's got my tongue I cannot help the feeling that I would not have come this way then she says you've got yourself way too many problems my friend I can't help you there But ive got problems myself So that makes us two I said words are all i can offer to our company she declined but i loved her and she was gone before i could mutter ill see you down the line death he's by the sidewalk waiting revving his 800cc/well oiled engine hes motioning to me get in take the ride and man, I must admit its terribly tempting sometimes
7.
You’re talking into the silence where nobody’s listening who gives a damn? who’s the foe, the friend you'll know at the end it's not me, honey Visions of memory and things to be they remember me the phone it rings I answer the call here is my hand I thought It seemed so and not at all Life it goes where you go nowhere else was there to be taught joy and sorrow casually and at their window you’ll never again find me I learned on the road where grand ideas were trying to sweep me off my feet begging the question or for sympathy I didn't follow And my mama She won’t give her hand Won’t even wink Leaves me to stand By a babbling hint Some things are better Left this way I've been riding In deaths sidecar For ever For too long Forbidden by A selfseen wont He turns to me and says If you’re so brave Then won't you get right off And take a walk And man get yourself some taste These days The names are just The same person, as I am it's just another can Printed, sated I need some help, where is this going I don’t know what I am doing but I know where I have been
8.
oh absurdity, this town it manages somehow to always shake a chill out of me its way too hot for a man to be oh so cold oh absurdity their selling words and me, my friends down the cold cold drain~ them dressed in the garbs of the occult in a half ironic gesture to hell with all the crowd they sang clear and loud in ironic times its hard going some living high some lowly dying oh absurdity the selfseenitallcounsellor advising me to give it up and give it all i've got its a free land man its a free for all dont think twice its not in fashion anymore where to go the world hanging on the thread bare words of neon clowns asks the homeless man on the roads he's making sense but no one wants him to know oh absurdity it went knocking all over my brain asking if I was just the same i said i dont worry too much at all simple and plain I don't care about the money I wanna look and laugh just like the rest I've got time, I've got my honey I got crooked teeth and a head so scrawly i found a letter in a plastic bottle rolling in a clinkity clinkity past taken for granted * hand me down advertised realities to whom it concerns this is what I ahve to say imnot your brother im not your son it dont matter who I am im not anyone oh absurdity if youre going to read it listen to it or throw it away then go on right ahead it dont matter to me anyways Everybody is waiting to pounce on failure, it's just so easy so here I am all 50 kilograms giving them a run for their irony oh absurdity c'mon honey baby put it in rhyme and ill do my best to say it in time
9.
If ever you come around down to tokyo heed this warning well and don't think twice stay far from kinshicho it lures with opportunity twice that way I did go looks just like a dream topped with a bike riding waving whistling sumo downby nearby golden alleys with quentin, wim and francis at the jetty with a shapeshifting girl i walked with in kinshicho alleys looked no longer like an old friend she said does anyone know this man? Pointing to me three fists went flying So was I through the window hightailing and in the red sunned morning I met the flag flying cutthroat daylight robbery in the film lab I was tongue-stunned as he kept repeating this is japan he wrote his demands it was all kanji but I got the numbers and the sign of the yen I gave him what I had Turned out every pocket he said now piss off don’t ever come back in a thick old german accent if you're ever in tokyo remember whats been told get your ass on the train in double time if you find yourself in kinshicho goddamn you kinshicho goddamn you kinshicho you looked just like a dream then sold mine down the drain goddamn you kinshicho
10.
Who Say I Am 03:59
With a thousand minds come a thousand thinks and talk and ink till blue knuckles meet faces blue I think its so and now I don't You’re thinking too see what you will I have no flair of design, no only seeing in straight times I’m real crooked seeming No wrong or right no false or true looked free maybe for the light so I drew and drew and drew and so high I flew on conclusions a fanciful flight And down they pulled me to the ground at the lost and found gave me coke gave me soap and some hope planted a kiss on my face I said I'll stay then they sent me on my way What’s on your mind? says the fool gives all he’s got, take it all there's no time to the teller its just a job he says in earnest just getting by Play the part take the time down, on and out hanging up the line now and then who’s in who’s a lout cant remember all the names Here is my man she's having a laugh just a joke you don't know now you do time to go so say hello all there is is hello Jotting notes making lines on tourist maps to places we have no intention to go put some faith in a bowl save it for breakfast tomorrow Round and round and round and round and round and round I heard it ring that circular sound plain for all to see I was gone just rambling on I'm just trying to come home take me in will you please but its likely in time coming I'll say farewell take it all take my time Encounter signs make a face give what I can sometimes love sometimes a damn sometimes thinking can only say that I give most truly up

about

A Long Stroll took two feet off - away and bound
to and for and right on along - homebound and yet
where to and for whom and to what tune
did the asking nag jump to? - Scrawling, Bawling
footfalling scares at a wakening snoreyelp -
Shuffling through and eyeing a sigh only once
to come around and - yes here - ask never again for
assurances - why? - for clearness, inclarity, spirifidelity
between the bowing heads of Castor and Pollux, the
the Moon - says see past, right past the expressionless
block on block on block on block - Past that now! and
stilly and freely are not the hands that place each one
lightly upon yours reason enough? so find song in
electric times - find!

recorded at The Broken Machine in Singapore

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released October 30, 2016

Frank - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals

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Tinkerer Singapore

Tinkerer is an art rock project by Frank Lee. Making music and happenings in electric times.

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