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Cash Machine

from Demonstration by A Paper Tugboat

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All my dreams have turned to rusted beams
in burnt out speeding cars left by the side of the road
And you know how I make it seem,
when the words begin to bleed
and that preacher's saying something that I've heard before.

I go to work each day and I earn my dollar bills.
And I think that makes my mother proud of me.
But I still write my songs
and my stories in my head
I'm never focused on my work at hand.

All those ghosts and all those friends
got dead bent and headed west
where the sun will always shine.
And I could try my whole damn life
to get that money looking right
but I'm up in arms over something I can't do anything about.

But I go to work each day and I earn my dollar bills
and I think that makes my mother proud of me.
But I still write my songs
and my stories in my head.
I'm never focused on my work at hand.

My pinwheel seems to color blue and red
and float beneath my bed.
It sends shivers down my lonesome spine cowering in the dark.
And you know how I make it seem
when the lines begin to bleed
and that preacher's rambling on and on and on and on and on...

Please go and watch your sister settle down
and marry a man who seems alright right now.
Maybe he drinks, but hey just maybe they'll be fine.
What the hell would I know about that?

Maybe I'll give up
Let your family wear me down.
Get a wife and a job and a kid
in some white trash Litchfield town.

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from Demonstration, released January 2, 2010

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