The Fauves

What's Five Cents Buy?

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Sitting counting the years again
While the wrinkles and the age set in
Like liquid into this chalk
No I don't want to talk to anyone
Who doesn't understand
Cryogenics and a plan to totally
Take everything to the next life with me
Because I want to know
What's five cents buy?
Open the door to your old bedroom
It smells like the breath from a Pharoah's tomb
And then you're going in
Five cents sitting in a little can
Fucked things up because we never plan
Left it all to happenstance
Time is up
Tick tick tick getting away from us
Because I want to know
What's five cents buy?

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blood Is Thin On Feb 01, 2013

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