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Regional Justice Center

from Bedroom Music by Mother McKenzie

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There are seventeen floors of courtrooms
And seventeen floors of trials
Seven lawyers breathing loud on an elevator
And I can hear their livers turning to slime

I stand among them and the criminals
Men in nice suits or stained undershirts
There’s a buck toothed giant with rats in his hair
He whispers sweet things to thirteen year olds

There are seventeen floors of people
And I’m too tired to socialize
With the file clerks stamping, and sighing, and waiting
To go home and cuddle with someone

I stand on the seventeenth floor
I can look out the window and see everything from here
I can scan all the rich neon gutters
Where poke-a-dot faces turn and disappear
I dream of a soft face beneath the eye liner
Someone to shine so honest and bare
Someone to light up and make up for all of the fucked up
Glances like arrows through the air

There are seventeen floors of prisoners
In one form or another, it’s true
All chained up, and tapping, and whistling, and hoping
To go home and cuddle with someone

And the security guards at the metal detectors
Look the saddest of anyone in town
I hear them talking about baseball with lost eyes escaping
To dreams of chasing bad guys around
And they’ll dig through your trays of car keys and loose change
Just to feel so authoritative rush
They get off work at dusk; feed their dogs and go to sleep
And in the morning wake with dirty teeth to brush

Such sadness in the drunk and disorderly
Such sadness in the dealers and thieves
Sad eyes searching, and scamming, and wishing
To go home and cuddle with someone

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from Bedroom Music, released May 4, 2010
Wyatt- Vocals, guitars, piano

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