Name: I can do something that life can't do
Duration: P00H04M21S
Description: a thorough re-working of a 1986 song

I can do something that life can't do

from Cut Glass by Coz the Shroom

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a thorough re-working of a 1986 song

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I can do something that life can't do
these are things life has admitted are true
life has a way of obscuring its rules
that always sorts out the obstinate fools
Life goes extinct when extinction survives
I go extinct when life isn't alive
Life waves my wand but then life disappears
I can see colors that life never hears
I might complain about everyday life
What some call worship is meaningless strife
I might get stumped for a minute or two
It's just a conveyance of garbage and glue
And there's always a way to do
Something that life can't do

I can do something that life can't do
There's always an answer that's often untrue
Life has a way of disturbing the peace
I don't have to live under that kind of lease
Life counts the hair's on a lion's head
I'll clip the hair from a bullfrog instead
It may be immodest to say this is true
But why not try doing what life cannot do?
I might complain about everyday things
What some some people worship are arrows and slings
I might get stumped for a minute or more
It's just an inversion of weddings and war
And there's always a way to do
Something that life can't do

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from Cut Glass, released September 2, 2016

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Coz the Shroom New Mexico

NOW RETIRED TO BECOME A MONK AND FOLLOW THE TAO TE CHING.
Cassette artist since 1979, Former Austin punk rocker, (18 years in Austin Texas) independent recording artist, and part of the SUCKDOG circus from 1991 to 1998. long time performance artist, writer, and psychonaut. ... more

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