Rotten Old World

from Mantennae by David P. Smith

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lyrics

I come from the land where the cotton wool sky
meets the bristling trees
Where the morning sun is a rising rocket
then plummets like a comet into twilight's inferno
Where our dreams swim and squirm in the night's thick ink
like blind black eels gnashing their silver teeth

The stumbling bumbling mumbling drunken cowboy
waves his willow wisp fist at the moon
His untanned arm a pale incoherent antennae
It's like waving the remote at a big round yellow TV
When this rotten old world has got you in a rage
When this rotten old world has got you in a rage

credits

from Mantennae, released September 3, 2009
David P. Smith - vox, accordion
Scott Henderson - guitar, backup vox
Mike Irwin - bass
Aaron Mogerman - drums
Gary Cherwonka - pedal steel
Scott Bennett - backup vox

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David P. Smith Victoria, British Columbia

David P. Smith is a songwriter accordionist and multidisciplinary artist who in the past 18 years has released six full length recordings, numerous ep’s, and led a variety of musical projects that have consistently defied convenient genre classifications. ... more