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Stairways

from Marriage by Groom

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lyrics

The painter sat there on a stairway
Contemplating rain
And other inconveniences
Drips from the leaky ceiling hit his in-betweeniences
Oh, essence of life
Oh, dilution of it all

And then she joined him on the stairway
Uncoiled her elbows and knees and then released the unsaid
Like the last verse of a song she’d started inside her head
“The baby sitter’s gone,
I’ve put the kettle on.

“How could you do this to me?
Sit here between love and me?
I’m so tired of our words
I feel it like a tragedy
That what I say just makes a fool of me

“I wish we had blue-collar problems
That you could fix in minutes with your fists
Or a good old lock-out
Put paid to conversance because, my dear, I’m all talked out.
Wouldn’t that be nice?
No more creeping ‘round like woodlice.

“How could you do this to me?
Sit here between love and me?
I feel so tired of our words
I feel it like a tragedy
But what you say just makes a fool of me”

The painter shifted on the stairway
Contemplating colour
Unchanged and undiluted
The leaky ceiling wept to his right just where she had
He thought he might paint it all
Then shivered right down to his balls

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from Marriage, released August 21, 2010

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