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Artist: Frankie Cosmos
Canonical path: /frankie-cosmos/a-joke
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A Joke
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A Joke
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It's just a joke
I wasn't trying to tell
What the hell?
I do not know what I am for
I wasn't really keeping score
It wasn't really a game
Flowers don't grow in an organized way
Why should I?
A bowl of sugar and some flower stems
Their spikes growing
I wanted to come from a painting
An abstraction
Calling up Time and waiting on the line
Till I finally say
I quit, baby
It's just a joke
I wasn't trying to tell
What the hell?
I still don't know what I am for
I wasn't really keeping score
It wasn't really a game
Flowers don't grow in an organized way
Why should I?
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Frankie Cosmos performs "A Joke", and this lyric page sits inside the Frankie Cosmos catalog on LyroVerse.
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