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Artist: Vic Chesnutt
Canonical path: /vic-chesnutt/vesuvius
Related lyric paths: 6
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Vesuvius
Read Vesuvius lyrics by Vic Chesnutt on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Vesuvius
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Trying to clip the creek
To the bank with a clothes pin
Waterlogged system
Rusty spring
Faulty planning
Logic squeezed out like mustard at a corndog
Hypertension is not wisdom
Chewing the leather straps
Trying to hold the sun
Still with a bobby pin
Burned fingers
Excellent conductor of heat
Private fantasies are not public policy
Christian charity is a doily over my death boner
Busy work is not the Great Wall of China
Vanity bamboo hut out back behind the big house
Pretend is salve for whitey-boy guilt
Furiously slapping at
The moon (the moon)
With a cane pole
Trying to prop up
The heavens
With a fresh flat pencil
Some folks are allergic to rubber
I am trying to stitch this one to all the rest of them
But the seams will split
Collide and cleave
Neopolitan ice cream is never truly integrated
Until it's too late
Trying to stop the bleeding
With scotch tape
Platelets spoil adhesion
Fire up the cauterizing iron
It's a branding of necessity
Not scarification
Bliss was a pimple that I tried to pop
It erupted up and out on my countenance
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Ugly eruption, Vesuvius
Vesuvius at myself
Vesuvius at myself
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