Bats In The Attic

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And I've gone silver on my travels,
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growing silver in my sideburns. I'm starting to unravel her,
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My heartbeats on a downhill,
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I counted eighty on my pulse as Kilrenny Church struck three for three o'clock.

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What else?

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What else?

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And you said twelve years in retirement.
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The hours go by like sips of water. The record lies unbroken,
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and no doubt, it's white flour in my diet.
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It's going to be the death of me, sweet drumroll for those embittered big ideas.

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It's such a waste of all that I had.
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It's such a waste of all that I had.


You mentioned bats in the attic,
so now you're lifting up the tiles to get around these conservation rules.
I walked down in the basement.
I'm hanging upside down, a gag across my mealy mouth.

And how I'll laugh out loud about that.
When I read your simple novel, it uses all our real names.
And go make yourself a fortune,
there's nothing left for us then us left dangling just a little shamefaced.

It's such a waste of what we had.
And it's such a waste of all that we had.
And it's such a waste of all that I am.