Substitute

from Pastiche Soul Machine by RICH MYSTICS

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In brown boots you asked me if I'd like to play inside
But I'll stay right here and watch the animals fight in the streets
When I'm in my vase it's easy to explain the hole I see
In all you slags. You're so pretty but your nose just isn't clean

When the bottle's passed around I always poison true
But in the middle of a laugh I suddenly think of you

Chorus:
I'm trying hard to get you
In the back of my mind
I'm trying hard to get you
In the back of my mind, I just don't have the time

To walk again inside this cage and tomb
I'm loose
I pick up every substitute for you

Backwards there's a war between forward but that gets to be a bore
They come here in a line, with general compliments
And then I lie around too long like some dog that's overfed
By hanger-ons and dealers left so fast, I can't recall a name

When the bottle's passed around I always poison true
But in the middle of a laugh I suddenly think of you

Chorus:
I'm trying hard to get you
In the back of my mind
I'm trying hard to get you
In the back of my mind, I just don't have the time

To walk again inside this cage and tomb
I'm loose
I pick up every substitute for you

You're not a substite
You're not my substitute

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from Pastiche Soul Machine, released October 29, 2013

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