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Turn the painting right around

by Steven X Davies

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She went off like an annoying cough but you just knew she’d be back sooner than you could clear your throat she acts like an old billie goat smuggly finding time to gloat bout an argument won eaten clothing melting in the sun you realise everyones gone home except you and the seagulls okay theres still a few hangers on who you’d rather see go and they don’t really want to know or woud ever consider to take you back home Everyyear it becomes more clear When it comes to loneliness theres little to fear Because theres a much bigger price by letting anyone near They can twist your shy veneer and make you want to scream Shut up get out of here I’d rather be alone my dear
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Anyway 02:36
As the hand reaches around the door knob you want to hide but it Gripped tight turns right it squeeks while he’s twirsting your words around as my stomach churns and my heart burns knowing soon all your problems will be mine Has anything ever been right when it comes to your life I see the last of days sunlight as you force your way into my door I’m a prisoner falling to the floor But all that you can say is anyway anyway your reply to anything I say is anyway as my stomach churns and my heart burns knowing soon all your problems will be mine But all that you can say is anyway anyway Yes all you can say to me is anyway
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i see them naked hand in hand firey woman and floaty man They giggle in little squeeks She is crazy man and he’s rather meek Meanwhile the horse is patiently yearning a shorty horsy with manes of white dizzy at their dazling natural sight their flowers he does often eat They grow from floating mans tears of joy living in this trippy fucking world fiery woman flies above them high on too much crack But when you turn the When you turn the painting around …. she still looks like she still looks like shes high on crack turn the turn the painting right around man she’s high, so high, high, high, high, high on crack, she’s so high high high, high turn the painting x3 turn the, turn the Shes high x4 i see them naked hand in hand firely woman and floaty man They giggle in little squeeks they are at their drug taking peak She is crazy and he’s rather meek Ohh floaty man, why so glum? Fiery girl Fiery girl will give you some give you some Fiery girl will give you some
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Prison 05:03
Daddys has been in jail most of my life/he knocked my mother up the day he committed a big crime/went down for arm robbery for 22 years/ was an accessory for murder even though he didn’t do a thing whoo hooo whoo hoo the poor runt/ Maybe he could have told his brother/to pull his head in/Instead when he killed the police officer /he simply stood and let him whoo hooo whoo hoo the poor cunt/ We visited him a lot /when I was really young in maximum security/He said he loved my Mum /she hardly even knew him It guess lonely inside prison/knowing she was out there built some great romanticism whoo hooo whoo hoo the poor cunt Mum didn’t seem to mind /as she thought he was quite charming/This went of for quite a while /until I was half past nine/We’d see him every weekend/Fuck we had a pretty darn good time/Then sadly like a twist of fake everything changed My mum got breast cancer and end up dying/I stood there all alone in a home the day that I turned ten /Heart broken missing Mum with no chance of getting near to him It was the first time I’d know depression/now my biggest personal demon whoo hooo whoo hoo the poor cunt Spent 5 years stuck in foster family/Until I ran away/when I put a single foot wrong the belt would be slapped right into me/Found myself living on the streets of Sydney and Kings Cross/Spent a while in an allay in Surry hills and some nights in darlinghurt whoo hooo whoo hoo the poor cunt One day I sat there so lost/I thought of ending it/I was sitting on a bench near goulburn lockup and hunt street/I was almost 21 years of age I felt like I was in my 50s when I saw this man walking towards me and I knew that it certainly was him I asked him siir are you my father/He relied by saying my name/tears rolled down both of our faces/we looked very much the same/he hugged me like a fathera feeling I’d rarely known before/it changed my life and also his /we knew we’d won a war.

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Written in my home in Sydney between October 2016 and March 2017. I hope anyone who takes the time to listen enjoys.

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released April 29, 2017

All music and lyrics by Steven X Davies

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Steven X Davies Sydney, Australia

Singer Songwriter from Sydney Australia who has embraced the influences of the singing of his lovely Nana Alma's singing and a child and his Mum talent as a poet who wrote some beautiful and dark words. As a young man he found his own style and started writing lots and lots of unreleased things. In recent years he's branched out a bit more. Playing a lot more online in this covid existence 2020 ... more

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