The Clockworks - Deaths and Entrances / Bills and Pills @ Paradiso Tolhuistuin Amsterdam (1/6)

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Amsterdam 14 april 2024
Deaths and Entrances
Pubwards we crawled again
The queue had skewed around the bend
And me the last of all my friends
Halloween in Galway
"I'm sorry buddy not tonight"
Peter mutters steely eyed
The lads are in and out of sight
Concerned as always
I wandered lonely as the crowd
Turns a darker shade of loud
My brain picks apart and teases over
All I might do wrong
While someone dressed as Jesus
Is wailing Redemption Song
Past the couple having dinner
Both staring at their phones
Past the broken-hearted Cupid
Saying "How could I have known?"
After he said "Don't be stupid"
Turned Houdini with the truth
Now she's banging back a bottle
Of 100% proof
Past the Robin Hood who's handing food
Out to a homeless girl
Says "I remember how it feels
To be forgotten by the world"
Then looks into the camera
Says "Poverty must end"
Checks his Rolex and steps back into
His new Mercedes Benz
Past the David Foster Wallace
Bandana in his hair
Who mentions Dostoyevsky when he's sure someone can hear
Then argues with the barman on existential themes
And heads into the bathroom to Google what it means
Saying "I'm not shy I'm understated
The Mona Lisa's overrated
Stop trying to make me perfect
Cause being human's complicated."
I'm sorry buddy not tonight
I'm sorry buddy not tonight
Then back down to earth again
Having beaten myself round the bend
With me's that lead to bitter ends
I see your face
There's a gravity about you
Something in the eyes
One of those conversations
Where you don't need to try
The game of who can tell
The most earnest lie
My hopeless rumination
Clocks out for the night
Until you say "take off your mask"
You reach out to find the clasp
I say "I can't" and watch you gasp
Laughing, you say "Goodnight"
Bills and Pills
Hannah’s into Charlie
Charlie is a speedfreak
David likes to dabble but he’s scared to be in trouble
Jack’s smoking is chronic
I swear Matt’s an alcoholic
And Karen turns to pills when the bills threaten to double
But the bills keep coming
So the pills keep coming
Girls no longer longing for a
Wizard on a 6-string
My Wonderwall cover drowned out by
Bickering and bitching
Strangers in the sitting room
Danger in the kitchen
If everybody’s talking
Is anybody listening?
The bills keep coming
So the pills keep coming
There’s a bang bang on the door
She’s not waiting for the man any more
He knows her well, she’ll take what she can, and
He’d sell water to a drowning man
The bills keep coming
So the pills keep coming.

[@Augustinus1962]

Ik heb deze een meter naast je ook opgenomen, top optreden was het!