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This big dream
is getting embarrassing,
when I punch the page
the ink won't get dry.
I keep moving away so you're not my home,
but wherever I go
the jury cries out,
You're just alone, 
Hey, you're frozen there in,
an odd thought,
that I've gone to far,
and heaven asks why is this all you want?

An all day sale,
plastic flowers $1.89.
A siren wail,
and a court ordered fine,
the crucifix is hung on minimum wage,
the empty holster,
the dotted line,
in an odd thought,
that I've gone to far
and heaven asks why is this all you want?

I used to read Camus,
Dostoevsky and Faulkner too,
beyond good and evil
to the swastika's of Siouxsie Sioux,
but I don't need my friends
high up on Calgary,
to melt the ice
or explain right from wrong to me. 

And all the barmen in heaven at the local pub,
say Sisyphus always buys a round,
there's no exit
and he pays the working girls well,
he knows he shouldn't say it
but his alibi sold him out.
Muhammad and Jesus were brothers to the end,
so I don't know why
they're throwing rocks at him.
On the cross even Pontius Pilate had his doubts,
because when I pray to you
the petals still fall out.
He says it's an odd job,
a strange walk,
down spiral stairs,
and the night goes on.

They know it's not fair
and all my famous friends,
make sure they say so
and they make sure that you can hear,
but their bank accounts,
well they're in on the joke,
and they make sure that their accountants know.
But this machine cooled air,
it always makes me choke
like I didn't ruin outright,
anyone who loved me
or put up a fight,
but the lighter won't spark
so even fire is in doubt,
I got lost in Eden,
I got found out,
down,
spiral stairs,
the neon font,
and heaven asks
why is this all you want.
This big dream
is getting embarrassing. 

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from Mike Law on the Spiral Stairs, released October 25, 2019

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