Week 49: The Mirror Dance

from 2019 Song-a-Week Thingy by John Brownell

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Go tell the story of the glory of the Dig Dug
Go speak and spell and gel your hair and hang your phone up
Stay there while you can
Do the mirror dance
Put your walkman on
Play a song that reminds you of
My Buddy and Me

You revealed a concealed VHS tape and
Explained that you had been abducted by an alien
I said I’m sorry man
Sipped Clearly Canadian
Sure I’ll watch your tape
But first I wanna watch
Mannequin

If this was a screenplay
We would have scrapped the whole script by now
Because no one would believe the way things actually turned out
And it feels like more and more
We are at war with a place and a time
That we cannot force
Our will upon

Go tell the story of the glory of the New Coke
You drank your Tang and sang your songs at karaoke
Called off the Space Shuttle
It was scuttled
It was temporal like the coral
Simons Says its amoral
But what does he know

If this was a screenplay
We would have scrapped the whole script by now
Because no one would believe the way things actually turned out
And it feels like more and more
We are at war with a place and a time
That we cannot force
Our will upon

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from 2019 Song-a-Week Thingy, released January 1, 2019

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Singer / songwriter / recorder in Missoula, MT.

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