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Apple & The Tree

from Normal Life Is Fine by Tom John Hall

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What is it like
to be gold standard all the time
To be born to a silver spoon
and damn well demand it
ah,
what are you like,
you think about that all the time.
But for every life I covet,
there's a thousand lives of suffering,
just covered up, dismissed and deemed redundant.

Who ever really learned
to eat what's on their plate first,
appreciate their place,
and be grateful?
And who uses their ambition to disguise an ignorant submission
to not thinking,
who?

It's me, it's me, the apple and the tree.

(you're always complaining)

What have I got
to get het up on?
You said.
Well why do I feel cheated out of something
that never could have existed?
Well that's it.

Be who you are
You can be anything if you work hard
Not strictly true,
you can only do what you were born to do
Just fidget for those in charge.

You don't want to be anything you want to be,
you've already got there.

It's me, it's me, the apple and the tree.

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from Normal Life Is Fine, released August 5, 2016

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