Pull Up Your Socks (When You're In The Tall Grass)

from Breakfast At The Coliseum by Human Yo-Yo

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(Part I)
I won a contest, I’m learning how to fume.
Hiding space, your face bled through.
Maybe I’m lost, did I hurt the muse?
I can’t play the snare or Arcadian tunes.
It’s not my lagoon.
Maybe the bombs are set to stun?
Simulations of how to run?
‘You’ll be needed in a garden rush.
Help your brother succeed at dusk.
Choices are for the Emperor’s kin.’
This is consequence, not punishment?
Howdy new nation, welcome the creed.
Who we are is what we feed?
“When you’re in the tall grass-”
Will there be breakfast time,
Refills I don’t have to ask for?
A waitress with a smirk who tells me I must burn
The bridge between new absurd,
To enjoy whatever’s still green,
To know that I can’t always be what the world needs.

(Part II)
Symphony twisted sounds like an applause,
‘Welcome to the stage, this tortoise of art.’
Timpanis listed aren’t down for the cause.
Keys shaped like 3’s and are married to a splintering quartet.
Sympathy gifted feels like a trap,
I’m not the one to sing for the arms of man.
No insults to my cloud are ordinary sounds,
You’ve proved me mad.
You whip the lion, I rip my thread.
I clipped the wire because the news wasn’t born yet.

(Part III)
My flag is welded, never torn.
Am I a star or a future urn?
Throw my books and my notes into my
Old toy box and say I was a man of culture.

May I be found shaping love;
Antiquating motifs with an oil drum.
“But lunchtime will be met
Under unconsolable, unfamiliar relations.”

Churches will sing when the water turns
Into gasoline, when the fighting herds
Into my mailbox and says
My life can wait and so can the chrysanthemums.

I’ll still be a boy, you a girl of poems.
Please don’t be asleep while I’m alone.
I can see your sundress in the cold,
It jubilates my dying story roundabout to home.

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from Breakfast At The Coliseum, released March 16, 2018

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Human Yo-Yo Los Angeles, California

Human Yo-Yo writes experimental folk songs that float on humble electronics, scattered drums, and anxious melodies. With this established sound, Yo-Yo fills in the gaps with lyrics exploring personal experiences and a love of words.

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