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Everybody Hates Poetry

from Subversiv Dekadent by The Distractors

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about

The main refrain of this came to me doing the washing up one day. I like the irony of writing a song around this idea which only has about 6 words in it. The second line in the middle 8 is so good, I'm convinced I stole it from somewhere.

lyrics

The truth is like poetry
And everybody hates poetry.
I'll tell you what you want to hear instead,
If we're lucky we'll end up dead

You know I've heard it said,
You're a big girl in a small town
But the only way to leave your one horse town
Is with the volume up and the windows down

It's all fun and games until somebody loses their mind
But if you have to fail, better fail at something worth your time.

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from Subversiv Dekadent, released May 14, 2021

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