Free Roman

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Baby, sucking on a battery
This was not the first time; umpteenth instance nearly
Keeping up is easy with automatic steering
Pleasure and sensation keep you up there
Dangling from large industrial cranes

There’s water on the brain
But no need to panic
Just wake me up at eight
With buzzing and static
And I will be a witness to the damage that will be
Repeated

I’m looking forward
I’m looking forward
I’m looking for the black comedy
And I’ll fiddle through life
Like Nero, free Roman

Baby, you always get so antsy
You’re never finished thinking, maybe you’ll start drinking
You could be an actor and grow a gut like Shatner
Build a fifteen-minute empire and watch it burn from space
Yeah, man

There’s water on the brain
But no need to panic
Just put me up away,
A toy in the attic
And I will be a witness to the damage that will be
Repeated

I’m looking forward
I’m looking forward
I’m looking for the black comedy
And I’ll fiddle through life

And I’ll fiddle through life
And I’ll bring my bombs to heaven
And I’ll fiddle through the gates
And do a holy shooting, oh no
And back here on the Earth,
We’ll nuke a new Pangea
And we’ll talk about the good ol' days
And smoke away our feelings
All right

There’s water on the brain
But no need to panic
Just wake me up at eight
With buzzing and static
And I will be a witness to the damage that will be
Repeated

I’m looking forward
I’m looking forward
I’m looking for the black comedy
And I’ll fiddle through life
Like Nero, free Roman

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from Tom Shape, released March 1, 2019

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