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Morning Paper

from Anchors Aweigh by Proud Simon

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Endless summer sweat,
A hay moon overhead,
Collecting a deck of diamonds
From the gutter I was thrown in,
I clean my cuts and sweep the dust
Into a spinning consciousness.

Kerosene was rising in the cavernous basement,
I'm a businessman with my tie slackened and bloodstream boiling,
Holding a compass with a hundred hands and peacock feathers recurring.

Digging in the sediment with dirt under our nails,
Echoes in our eardrums from the belly of a whale
The circuitry is surrounding me.

You'll be back when you get over all these preoccupations,
With a lantern lit and the window cracked that wept white raindrops.

You've been sacrificing ambitions for a shot at redemption,
For a shot at a transition as the silver steam glistens.

We were lion statuettes,
Crumbled and contemptuous
Guarding the morning paper.

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from Anchors Aweigh, released September 3, 2009

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Proud Simon New York

Proud Simon was an Americana band from Rochester, New York, who formed in 2003. The band consisted of cousins Brian Keenan and Charlie Monte Verde. Over the course of the next 8 years, the band relocated to Brooklyn, went through countless lineup changes and recorded 3 LPs and 3 EPs. Their final EP was "Anchors Aweigh" in 2009. Songwriter Brian Keenan now performs under his own name. ... more

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