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Pains of the Young

from Death v. Decline (single) by Clip Art

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Poor young man
You lack perspective
Sitting under the table crying invective
Pencils stab all your letters
You've pinned them to the floorboads
Bleeding forevers

Raise your glass to the pains of the young
Open arms to the passionate ones
Pray for those who passionately wait

Afternoon earthquate
Last false start
Struggle to slow the traffic through your heart
Poor young girl
Your head just aches
Car horns and that ghost you've got to shake

Raise your glass to the pains of the young
Open arms to the passionate ones
Pray for those who passionately wait
Smile and suffer the pains of the young
Nod your head to the passionate ones
I'll never passionately wait

I find myself at Grand and Western
Armless and trying to hail a cab
You wore a blue dress to the lectern
Icon of the things that I can't have

Dreamer generations
Procreate
Second gilded age no time to wait
On the web
Headlines could read
Myopic ears redeemed by harmony

For all the years that I squirreled words away
When the moment came I had nothing to say
So I'll live to passionately wait
I'll hold her hand on the way to the movies
Kiss in museums and alleys on Tuesdays
I'll live to passionately wait
So raise your glass
And I'll live to passionately wait
Smile and suffer
The pains of the young

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from Death v. Decline (single), released May 8, 2012

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Clip Art Chicago, Illinois

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Andy Rosenstein has been making music under the Clip Art moniker on and off since 2008. In 2014 he left JC Brooks and The Uptown Sound (Bloodshot Records) to release his debut full-length album, Culler.

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