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I was a teenage confusor

from The Phantom King by Joshua McCormack

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with his death sentence haircut
he's got some time to bend
gets his second glances from the misses on the mend
he's an easy operator on abandoned elevators
he's a switchboard plaster caster
always interviewing natural disasters

well, he's paralyzed with motion
straddling the ocean
trying to make you forget what you just said
and spitting out sarcasm in an endless razzem dazzem
is it art in the accidental ramblings of the hordes of living dead

a world of teenage confusion
lording over ruins like a prince with a family portrait smile
he sucks the toes of terror addicts
more like afterthought than habit
if you've had it all
you've had it silver platter severed headache style

a fantastic mind
with chance encounters hoping to find
the secrets of the world
within your outer orbit
your haunted resting place
these phantom limbs keep twisting
the dreams of peer lachaise
he loves you like a bomb
a neurotoxin song

he is kennedy to ketamine
he's every planet in between
he's distressed when trying to relax
he's stronger than piano wire
skips stones on the lake of fire
never gonna know him till his horse is busy
stomping on your back

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from The Phantom King, released April 3, 2012

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Joshua McCormack Tucson, Arizona

From the odd acoustic pop of Joshua Mccormack Presents Holiday Girl , to the electronic-tinged rock of The Phantom King , to the collection of sonic oddities on The Dunce Cap, he’s been restless for years.

His recent album Lights Out 4 Baby Grand, shows a more personal side, while The World, Just For You is a collection of cover songs he recorded to survive the dystopian ambivalence of 2020.
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