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Polka Dot Socks

from Wreckage (2004, album) by Paul Sprawl

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about

Sometimes the traveling, homeless, wanderers of the world find a focus and cling to it like respectable citizens latch onto their equally absurd obsessions.

lyrics

1.
Tree melted into the fog
Cat fell into a deep dark bog
Moth ripped the sky in two
Frog from another world
Jumped right on through

Bright turquoise bug
Crawls around the parking lot
Late Friday night in Kansas

There's a fly buzzing round my ear
Time's clicking gears are grinding here
Conveyor belt slowly winding
Slowly

2.
Life's a good restaurant meal
Served over and over
Till the memories
of it's former appeal
Stick me like a rusty nail

This script was written by a hack
It's senseless and boring
And I want my money back
But the lie continues
Despite the fact
That this amusement park does not distract

3.
Moved into a cardboard box
In the train station down the block
Doin' such good work there
I wash my polka dot socks
Drink lots of cough syrup
Eat Krispy Kremes

I know this life is not all it seems
Not all it seems
And I wash my socks
Twice a week
Twice a week
My polka dot socks
Oh my polka dot socks

4.
I got two pairs
I wash one on Monday
The other on Wednesday
The first again on Friday
The second again on Sunday

Lose track
I gotta ask somebody
Which pair of socks
Supposed to wash today

credits

from Wreckage (2004, album), released April 1, 2004
Paul Sprawl - voice, guitar
Howard Levy - harmonica, Hammond organ

license

all rights reserved

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