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The Waiting Game

from Demo Twenty Eleven by American Ethos

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”People don’t love each other at our age, Marthe –they please each other, that’s all. Later on, when you’re old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That’s all it is.”
-Albert Camus (A Happy Death)

The Waiting Game
I owe you nothing.
There is nothing left to give.
Call it what you will
But some of us need reasons to live.
We lay with daggers
Yet we can ‘lie’ for ever
We keep climbing ladders
To bluer skies, and greener pastures.

“Well, here’s hoping”
I’ll sleep with one eye open
A clever hand works those curtains
The future remains uncertain
and I’ll be hoping
and I’ll be sleeping with one eye open

We owe you nothing
We gave all we could give
‘The Bastards of the Young”
The unwanted daughters, the unfortunate sons
We keep getting chances
And we keep making them count
but we keep coming home empty
We let our fires burn out

All you little boys:
Bring your slings and arrows
All you little girls:
Bring your nightshade in bows
We came here to dance
We came here to fight

But I came here to win.

Let the games begin.

A vicious game,
We play ourselves
We hurt the ones we love…
…but we love what we sell.

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from Demo Twenty Eleven, released February 14, 2011

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