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About People​/​Not About People

from BetaFish by Andy Joseph

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Lovers, lovers on a starry night laying in the shadows of the full moon’s light.
The stars above are not too bright, and the temperature is not quite right.

But they could care less about the weather.
When you’re waiting on perfect, it could take forever.
Instead they enjoy their time together,
It doesn’t matter what they’re doing, they’re just having fun because they want to.

An old man thrown into his grave, he could not learn how to behave:
about familiar ideas he would always rave, but in the face of something new he was never brave.

His life became tuned to static
Ideas in his head stored like boxes in an attic:
shut tight and wrapped in plastic
so nothing new could seep inside and challenge his point of view.

Lonely girl sitting by herself wishing there was someone else
who could whisk her away on a fairytale, so she could write her story and put it on her shelf.

She should know that a romantic fool is nothing more than their own tool
for making this world seem all too cruel, when everyone was hoping she would just come and join the crew.

Life deals out many hands, like the romantic fool, or the broken man; because you hold your cards my friends means you don’t have to end with the same hand you began.

*now with a Lou Reed inspired interval, it goes*

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Just go ahead and shut down your fat men and little boys, or we’ll end up dead.
Or just go ahead and start another war, and we’ll make sure to drop you instead.
He who carries a bigger stick, had better make sure to have a bigger brain
because no science will save you from your science and all of this will be in vain.

Mike was an angry man, forced to be someone that he didn’t like:
water likes to keep us all alive, but this was not the case with Mike.
He was dropped onto an Atol, and under the sea, it was blown.
He tried to run away, and he would have taken the atmosphere if he had gone.

Now, I’m not saying we don’t deserve this power, but this power is easily miss used.
We should use it to help each other, instead of using it too abuse.
And I know you think that a big man should stick to his guns and be strong,
but I think it takes a bigger man to admit when he was wrong.

That he was wrong.
*It’s ok, we all make mistakes!”

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from BetaFish, released November 4, 2011

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Andy Joseph Minneapolis, Minnesota

Just a Madison boy, born and raised. I play the guitar to pass my days. And when the time comes to entertain, I'll leave no inactive cell in your brain. When the word goes through about the work I do, I hope you'll open up and sing along too.

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