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I Couldn't Make Stairs

from Luck by Worried Well

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I am a man and I work as hard as any other man
and I'm worth what a day's worth of work is worth.
I have no plans so different from any other man
Just to own my very own patch of dirt.

But it's the "ins" that weed me out.
It's society's filth that plants the deepest doubt.
This sick consensus. Public mood
is the worm that's twisting through my food.

I had a spare to spare at an earlier time
but I gave it to the next kid in line.
I had five wooden squares but I couldn't make stairs.
And when they bribed me I respectfully declined.
I had trouble getting air and I couldn't stand square
With a faulty build and twisted little spine.
I flinched when they threw the book at my eyes.
How could you tell I would have just as soon have died?

I was a boy just like any other boy
but they couldn't shape me into their employ.
I was as sweet as I felt i could afford to be
in an environment with nothing to enjoy.

Conjuring up soon forced me down.
And built a hunched and broken feeling
into the tallest kid in town.
I learned to whisper suppressing any speech
of value lurking underneath.

Unaware of the glaring social hierarchy
I appeared to be the jester of the keep.
They'd all just stop and stare at the boy who didn't care.
Drifting end to end til out of reach.
I learned to misdirect their hateful speech
and use it all to fuel a clever retreat.
I laughed when they threw the book at me.
I smiled when I should have shown no teeth.

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from Luck, released May 7, 2013

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Worried Well Portland, Maine

Daniel James and Cam Jones are a band called Worried Well.
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new album "Great Appetite, Poor Taste" available on vinyl and CD 7.24.15
Available digitally on Mint 400 Records on 9.7.15

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