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I post David Cloud Berman lyrics & poetry every few hours (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains, Actual Air)

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · Oct 31

In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 31m

My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
And they help me see
That everything in this room right now is a part of me
Oh yeah, is a part of me

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 3h

So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger
But before I go, I've gotta ask you, dear, about that tan line on your ring finger

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 6h

And when Clancy whipped her with his belt buckle
He cleaned her cuts and then we prayed

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 9h

A federal woman needs municipal man

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 12h

Nights that won't happen
Never ever again
Nights that won’t happen
Never reaching the end

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 15h

I see lots of normal men yearning to obtain her

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 18h

Build a stage for Autumn's bitch

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 21h

Not much water coming over the hill
Not much, not much, not much
Not much water coming over the hill
Not much, not much, not much

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

There's beasts and there's men
And there's something on this Earth that comes back again
Alpha... delta... gamma... everybody's smoked
Well, you can't say that my soul has died away
No, you can't say that my soul has died away

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

If it gets really really bad, if it ever gets really really bad...
Let's not kid ourselves
It gets really really bad

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

She said, "You don't make enough to provide for me"
I said, "What about the stuff that we quote believe?"
She said, "I left that on the sands of history
I've found a new man to take care of me
He dresses for success and emergency
And he moves a lot of concrete on the QVC"

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

How does an animal see
Once the sun is set?
Bandits in the capital
Limited civilian unrest

Sometimes a pony
Sometimes a pony
Sometimes a pony gets depressed

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

I should've checked the stable door
For the name of the sire and dam
You were always at the dog track
With your brother and all his friends

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

Goodbye users and suckers and steady bad luckers

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

What if life is just some hard equation
On a chalkboard in a science class for ghosts?
Then you can live again
But you'll have to die twice in the end
In the end
In the end
Oh, yeah
We'll meet again
We'll meet again

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

And as the pace of life keeps quickening
Beneath the bitching and the bickering
When I try to drown my thoughts in gin
I find my worst ideas know how to swim

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

People ask people to watch their scotch
People send people up to the moon

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

Can you summon honey from a telephone?

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

What would you say if I asked you to run away?

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

The passage kept on going
Like the carpet was flowing
Towards that thing at the end of the hall
My own eyes had adjusted
My account can be trusted
Cos I know that I saw what I saw

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

When you know how I feel, I feel better
When you're fifteen, you wanna look poor
You do unto others and run like a mother
I don't wanna look poor anymore
No, I don't wanna look poor anymore

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

The smell of fried foods came drifting out one of the castle windows
"Let's go around back," I said
"My brother buried some stuff back there"
We ducked down and walked through the black bushes
My shoe made a sucking sound in the turf

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

What kind of animal
Needs to smoke a cigarette?
Grass in the pasture
Is sharper than a bayonette

Sometimes a pony
Sometimes a pony
Sometimes a pony gets depressed

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 3d

Suffering jukebox
Such a sad machine
You're all filled up with what other people mean
And they never seem to turn you up loud
Got a lot of chatterboxes in this crowd