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I Am A French Police

from Tin Can Communicate by Tame.. Tame and Quiet

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A song about perspective and interpretation

lyrics

Chalk it up to bad blood
There's much too much to tolerate
Donning common threads of
Clip-on ties and ankle weights
A young buck will thumb his nose at
An old woman's sense of permanence
I watched him fist-fight the air a while
Ranting from the bus stop bench

What's that?
I couldn't make it out
Corazon and a cotton pick
I wish but, but I can't make this up
Just roll the tape and I'll dictate

In this picture you were straddling a stranger's grave
No statement, so you swore to memorize his name
You'd like to think it meant something like he had no voice
Who left devoid of a parting word

He fidgets in fits, blurs where he sits
Thumps military rolls with the whole of his digits
Our antsy Atlas' arms, they forklift a worldly weight
Digging thumbs into the waterways

Bronze-toothen and a smile with a soothing air
Sun, soil, and sweat has bred a tangled dread
And I'll bear this worn board like it's Christ's own cross
All else is lost to his steely stare

He fidgets in fits, blurs where he sits
Thumps military rolls with the whole of his digits
Our antsy Atlas' arms, they forklift a worldly weight
Digging thumbs into the waterways

What's that?!?
I couldn't make it out
Cortisone in a paper cup
And I wish but, but I can't make this up
Just roll the tape and I'll dictate

I'm lucid as a half-hit squirrel
I'm exhausted possibilities
Exercise the right to feign a demon
And excise the ways to gain a reason
I've drawn an out of order card
Proclaiming "I am not for everyone."
"I'm not here for everyone" and
"I AM NOT FOR EVERYONE!"

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from Tin Can Communicate, released April 1, 2007

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Tame.. Tame and Quiet Fort Worth, Texas

Aaron Bartz-guitar and vox
Darren Miller-guitar
Jeff Williams-bass
Jason McMullen-drums

Previously:
Pat Ferguson-bass
Boyd Dixon-drums

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