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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 · 21m

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 · 3h

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

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

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 · 9h

Goodbye users and suckers and steady bad luckers

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

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 · 15h

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 · 18h

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

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

Can you summon honey from a telephone?

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

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

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

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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

So you've got no friends and you wander through the night
And now you watch the sunrise through a rifle-sight
Well, don't believe in people who say it's all been done
They have time to talk because their race is run

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

One of these days, these days will end
The kitchen window, the light will bend
You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
When someone at the table says:
"That's not what I call a life!"

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

Animal shapes, animal shapes
Nothing better get in the way of whatever it takes

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

How we stand the standard distance
Distant strangers stand apart

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

The elephants are so ashamed of their size
Hosing them down, I tell 'em, "You got pretty eyes"
Out in the backyard, I used to make like I was a cowboy
I'd set my dog before a hoop and say, "Now boy, now boy!"

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

Life in a candy jail
With peppermint bars
Peanut-brittle bunk beds
And marshmallow walls

Where the guards are gracious
And the grounds are grand
And the warden keeps the data on your favorite brands

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

And I remember you
And I remember me
The sunshine walking inside you
And the man you could see in me

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

Back then, I had a Buckingham rabbit
I'd been lonely since she found Christ
Now is the time to depend on the law
The nights of my professional life
It's the nights of my professional life

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

Lately, I tend to make strangers wherever I go
Some of them were once people I was happy to know

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

Closed sign swinging in the window of the liquor store
Better get inside the kingdom and close the door

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

So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the blood
And children wander off into the ultra-economic