They're just bagatelles
New song – listen here
Oleana sings in the way they taught her
Warm approving eyes on a faithful daughter
Oleana sings
Don’t it make you cry
Hear that little tune
As the days flow by
The big empty steals through the late autumn woods
The right notes sound pretty but the wrong ones feel so good
Oleana sings to a sighing father
In his antique mask so why even bother
Oleana sings
Don’t it make you cry
Hear her little tune
Hum her little tune
As she waves goodbye
New song – listen here
New song – listen here
I turned on the shortwave
Thought I heard my granddad
He said hey there kid
You’re not doing too bad
I could smell that first fire
When the wind turned cold
Burning out the damp
As winter took hold
Until now I didn’t know what it meant
When you think nothing matters
The stories go unread
The sins of the father
Like weeds in the garden
Choking out the roots
Blocking out the sun
Sometimes there’s a tomorrow
Where the clouds are parting
Are you a man or worse
Tell me what you’ve done
Remember when I left you
You thought I’d go far
I never tied that tie
Or fixed that damn car
Until now I didn’t know what it meant
‘Til I saw what I look like
With gray upon my head
The sins of the father
Like weeds in the garden
Choking out the roots
Blocking out the sun
Sometimes there’s a tomorrow
Where the clouds are parting
Are you a man or worse
Tell me what you’ve done
Are you a man or worse
New song – listen here
We won’t feel bad for breathing
Let the good wind blow
We won’t feel bad for taking
Everything you owe
You’ll go out as a clown in your
Very own rodeo
Come get in line for dinner
At the tiger show
At the tiger show
What was that you swore
When we bought it
Karma’s for the poor
Bootstrap bullshit
Time is short now
Smile and take a bow
We won’t feel bad for breathing
Let the good wind blow
We won’t feel bad for taking
Everything you owe
You’ll go out as a clown in your
Very own rodeo
Come get in line for dinner
At the tiger show
At the tiger show
I went to the dentist once. The hygienist came in and we started talking. Turned out she was from somewhere far away and exotic like Brooklyn or Queens. I wanted her to think I was cool or something, in a friendly way, so I was doing my best to keep it interesting. I thought I did alright. Before she started her work she lowered a TV screen to about a foot away from my face, opened Netflix, and started playing Surf’s Up, the animated penguin surfing movie from 2007. Was this for me? It had to be. She couldn’t really see the screen and the volume was barely a whisper so it probably wasn’t for her benefit. Does she do this with all her patients? Same movie or does she try to match the movie to their intelligence? I almost asked if this was the one with Robin Williams but caught myself in time when I realized I was thinking of Happy Feet. She would occasionally talk about something non teeth related but she never mentioned the movie so I didn’t either. I wanted to get out of there as soon as possible without looking any more ridiculous so I did my best to focus on the movie and not the fact that I was a grown man watching Surf’s Up in a dentist office like some easily distracted toddler. The only thing that made the situation more uncomfortable was trying to stifle my laughter. Silly penguins.