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Smoke Em' If You Got Em'

from The Skin Of My Teeth by Happy Tooth

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I'm taking steps towards paying debt.
I made a mess with these paper checks.
Am I the prey or the predator?
Indebted or the creditor?
I'll demolish myself, it gets worse before it gets better.
I wish I wasn't such a fiend for all of my vices.
I wish it was all a dream but now I'm clawing my eyelids.
I haven't woke up yet, and that hasn't helped the budget.
If sleep is related to debt, then I'm self-destructive.
I need help to function, cigarettes and booze.
Some caffeine and food, tell me which regrets to choose.
Right now I'm a candle, burning at both ends.
Once the flame meets in the middle,
I'll be a ghost then.

Smoke em' if you got em'
Chokin on your problems.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Hold in all the toxins.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Soak in all the rotten.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Lonesome and forgotten.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Broke and at the bottom.
Smoke em' if you got em x4

Ollie ollie oxen free!
Colin speaks his problems audibly,
I wish he wouldn't talk to me.
Drunk, in a pool of vomit,
we went to the school of nonsense.
Got it down to a process to drown in unconscious.
Killing me off, am I the main character?
I feel so lost in skin so stained,
I never got to wear it first.
Stare at words, and until they swallow you whole.
While a therapist works to try and hollow your soul.
While you were sleeping I was up all night dreaming.
Looking for a meaning in the way that we see things.
Right now, I'm a cigarette, burning at both ends.
Extinguishing myself, but if you got em' smoke em' then.

Smoke em' if you got em'
Chokin on your problems.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Hold in all the toxins.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Soak in all the rotten.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Lonesome and forgotten.
Smoke em' if you got em'
Broke and at the bottom.
Smoke em' if you got em x4
Smoke!
Anybody got a lighter?
Thanks.

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from The Skin Of My Teeth, released May 12, 2015

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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