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You Keep The Muse

from Eleven For The Road by Benjamin Shepherd

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Where is my tooth?
Where is my wit?
Where is the shirt
I wore in the movie 'Spit?'
You keep the muse around

Where is the loveboat?
Where is the ice?
Where is old Red?
What was his price
To keep the muse around?

Where is the moon?
Where are the rain?
Where art thou, mama
And where is the pain?
You keep the muse around

In the middle of September of 1989
Me and Jay Salato and a third friend of mine
Made a pact by the swings to sneak out that night
And in the third friend's hallway the devil we'd fight
I couldn't sleep a wink, I saw it all in my head
And when the house was quiet I crept out of bed
And down to the side door and out to the street
When it dawned on me that my friends had all gone to sleep
So back down the driveway and in through the side
There stood my father with fire in his eyes
And a bat in his hands, it seems that he thought
I was somebody after the things he had bought
He looked real concerned as I lied to no avail
I'd only stepped out to check on the mail

You ain't back home now
This isn't grade school
We all gotta work in the morning
Good neighbors play by the rules
And keep the music down

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from Eleven For The Road, released July 3, 2014

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Benjamin Shepherd Richmond, Virginia

Southern antifolk with a lyrical focus.

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