Dead Devotion

from Prince of Toronto Vol.1 by Prince of Toronto

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there’s a back-switch Hamlet
figure that is dancing in the wind

and if I am not to be
I’ll get back to the habit again
could you step on a worse part
I’m just waiting on my three point start

I see a toothpick sitting on a curb
that could fit through the cracks
I heard a skateboard break
and splinter by a cigarette pack

don’t you know how mouths react
when they’re placed back to back to back

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it starts, then it sits
that’s how separation fits
are you left to concern
that you are what you earn

it’s so vexed
then repelled
then forgotten like
some boy stuck down a well
who doesn’t get tripped up once in a while

there’s an endless source to your entertainment
I’m not sure what I'm contained in
but it surely gives to natural erosion
can’t you see it’s the dead devotion

got lost
on the fringe
cold connection coming in
don’t get left in the dust
you’re not what you burn

sometimes I have a hard time arranging
what’s in my guts
and what I’m paintin’

its the power
in a picket fence
when everyone is climbing over it

there’s an endless source to your entertainment
I’m not sure what I'm contained in
but it surely gives to natural erosion
can’t you see it’s dead devotion

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from Prince of Toronto Vol.1, released January 15, 2015

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