Dear Friend
from Uneven Keel by Invocal
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Dear friend.
*Sigh*
I've been trying to figure out exactly how to let you know
That you're awful and I hate you,
Without hurting your feelings.
Should I…
Write it in a letter,
P'raps a poem in a card,
Should I wait until you're unawares
And punch you very hard?
But 'cause I don't agree with violence -
I think it's wrong (ish)
I've taken all my twisted bile
And put it in a song! (ish)
There's a reason you don't see me
When you do I'm not on form,
It's not because I'm over-tired,
A bit stressed or forlorn,
It's not 'cause I'm hungover
(though in fairness that's not helping),
It's actually because I've been
Pretending that I like you, and I don't.
These thought as yet haven't actually left my head
So it's not long before I hear the words that fill my very soul with dread:
"Would you like…
Would you like…
Would you like to come to my house for tea tonight?"
What are we, ten?
Anyway. Before I've thought about it,
"Yeah! That'd be lovely!"
I've answered.
Obviously what I should have said was…
There a reason you can't see me although thanks for the invite,
The problem being of course, the fact that my life is finite.
To spend a night with you
When I've so few
Here in the first place
Would be a waste of precious time, and possibly a crime to all mankind.
See, why couldn't I have just said that?
Thanks very much mouth!
Now I've got to go to her stupid HOUSE and eat her stupid FOOD and look at her
STUPID FACE ALL NIGHT!
Oh.
How long had you been there?
"Were you just talking about me?"
No! No-ho-ho-ho!
I was talking …
About
My…
Rabbit.
"oh! That's alright then! Don't be late tonight, we're having tofu and henna with cous-cous!"
I've got my conscience on the left it tells me
"Sarah, just be nicer -
She's very sweet,
It's not her fault
I don't want us to fight her"
My bad side on the right says I've been
"being far too reasonable -
It makes more sense to lay a trap,
And poison her if feasible…"
Oh no!
What should take precedence?
(bearing in mind my bad side's twice the size of my conscience)
Oh no!
Should I be nice for once?
And then, I hear a voice -
It's kinda, like, spritual
Like an angel or
The baby Jesus - I dunno
But it's inside me
Like this one true voice
That makes more sense that anything else in this world…
"Just tell her to cock off."
*Sigh*
I've been trying to figure out exactly how to let you know
That you're awful and I hate you,
Without hurting your feelings.
Should I…
Write it in a letter,
P'raps a poem in a card,
Should I wait until you're unawares
And punch you very hard?
But 'cause I don't agree with violence -
I think it's wrong (ish)
I've taken all my twisted bile
And put it in a song! (ish)
There's a reason you don't see me
When you do I'm not on form,
It's not because I'm over-tired,
A bit stressed or forlorn,
It's not 'cause I'm hungover
(though in fairness that's not helping),
It's actually because I've been
Pretending that I like you, and I don't.
These thought as yet haven't actually left my head
So it's not long before I hear the words that fill my very soul with dread:
"Would you like…
Would you like…
Would you like to come to my house for tea tonight?"
What are we, ten?
Anyway. Before I've thought about it,
"Yeah! That'd be lovely!"
I've answered.
Obviously what I should have said was…
There a reason you can't see me although thanks for the invite,
The problem being of course, the fact that my life is finite.
To spend a night with you
When I've so few
Here in the first place
Would be a waste of precious time, and possibly a crime to all mankind.
See, why couldn't I have just said that?
Thanks very much mouth!
Now I've got to go to her stupid HOUSE and eat her stupid FOOD and look at her
STUPID FACE ALL NIGHT!
Oh.
How long had you been there?
"Were you just talking about me?"
No! No-ho-ho-ho!
I was talking …
About
My…
Rabbit.
"oh! That's alright then! Don't be late tonight, we're having tofu and henna with cous-cous!"
I've got my conscience on the left it tells me
"Sarah, just be nicer -
She's very sweet,
It's not her fault
I don't want us to fight her"
My bad side on the right says I've been
"being far too reasonable -
It makes more sense to lay a trap,
And poison her if feasible…"
Oh no!
What should take precedence?
(bearing in mind my bad side's twice the size of my conscience)
Oh no!
Should I be nice for once?
And then, I hear a voice -
It's kinda, like, spritual
Like an angel or
The baby Jesus - I dunno
But it's inside me
Like this one true voice
That makes more sense that anything else in this world…
"Just tell her to cock off."
credits
from Uneven Keel,
released March 30, 2006
Music & lyrics by R. Swayne
Music & lyrics by R. Swayne
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