Shut U Up Shut U Down

from Something I Forgot by Richard Haxton

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Me, I sell people everything that they don’t need
Wanna sell them a bandage, got to get them to bleed
So you target the armpits, the crotch, and the feet
Tell them that’s the location where they’re incomplete
They buy your product. It’ll make them smile
They may go out sooner, but they’ll go in style
It ain’t even real. Just an indoor sport
Where the only referees are those four reports

And the world doesn’t care if you’re lost or found
You can’t let it shut you up before it shuts you down

Me, I’m gonna be thirty early in the next year
It’s the culmination of my long career
But just because I’m getting kinda long in the tooth
Doesn’t mean I have to stop fabricating the truth
I watch the demographic go from lower to low
Cuz you can find more suckers, yo, the lower you go
If I can show my bosses that I’m still alive
Maybe I can make it all the way to thirty five

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from Something I Forgot, released December 12, 2014

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Richard Haxton Los Angeles, California

From the middle of Mississippi, served in Viet Nam in Thailand, lives 5,000 feet from the world's oldest freeway. Searches for transcendence - or something - where science meets the spirit. Never quit fighting the war for the groove!

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