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Mad With Laughter

from For Days by Cynthia Nelson Band

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lyrical inspiration/reference:

Avital Ronell: The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech, 1991, University of Nebraska Press.

Avital Ronell: Crack Wars: Literature, Addiction, Mania, 1993, University of Nebraska Press.

lyrics

we sat in the afternoon sun
nervous birds watching televised dust
holding tight onto love’s wet metal
that was never going to rust

we sat in the evening gloom
it didn’t matter what we stared at in your room
cinematic pigeons on the roof in the rain
you read The Telephone Book while Crack Wars kept me sane

you wanted me to tell you everything
while I kept trying to figure out what everything was
you said the daylight was worth saving
and I said this whole town is up in arms about the change

not like I was tomorrow’s biggest promise
I just liked to watch you talk
I just liked to watch your hands as they’re describing
as they’re extra-emphasizing
as they’re grasping onto my hands
playing records til 6 a.m.
mad with laughter

I parked your van on the streets of thee Manhattan
while you traveled well in somebody else’s
I looked after Chester rat, and wrote of you
and my band played many shows in thee Manhattan

you said you missed me more at the end of the tour
which somehow sounded like you didn’t miss me
so I gingerly and casually slid poems through the door
and I walked myself home in thee Manhattan
and I walked myself home in the snow

not like you were tomorrow’s biggest promise…

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from For Days, released December 8, 2023
Tara Key on lead guitar
Geoff Soule on drums

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Cynthia Nelson Portland, Oregon

NEW 12/8/23:
CYNTHIA NELSON BAND "FOR DAYS" on Curly Cassettes. Related projects: The Grand Style Orchestra, Digressive Combine, Ruby Falls, Retsin, The Naysayer, The Sophie Drinker Music Project.

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