Deader Than I Ever Was

by Todd Portnowitz

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Whil you’re busy building your new Frankenstein
With your super mind
With your steady eye
With your appetite
I’m standing by.

While you’re busy pinning down the animal
That’s in your soul
That is your soul
With your mind control
Well, it’s getting old.

You keep on laying down those laws
And I’ll keep sharpening my claws
And though they may put us in the grave together
You’ll be deader than I ever was.

I’ve seen you strutting like a polyglot
Yea, you talk a lot
You’re weaving plots
And tying knots
With others’ thoughts.

You’re wielding clippers like a true green thumb
Yea, you’re shapeing shrubs
Cutting back scrub
All out of love
In your gardening gloves.

You keep on laying down those laws
And I’ll keep sharpening my claws
And though they may put us in the grave together
You’ll be deader than I ever was.

Enough with the prophet’s words
Even if his words turn flesh

I’m taking my own advice
Betting that I know me best

It’s about time I came clean
I’ve been a horrible mess

Holding it all inside
Now I want this black out of my chest

I’m a native in this land
And I think as the natives think
Native, native in this land
And I speak as the natives speak

And things are as I think they are
And things are as I say they are

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released February 3, 2013
recorded @ Soundquest Studios, Feb. 2013

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Todd Portnowitz New York, New York

From 2004 - 2009 Todd Evan Portnowitz performed as singer/songwriter in the Florida band Clock Hands Strangle, recording two LPs, Redshift/Blueshift (2007 Team Grizzly) and Distaccati (2009 Chocolate Lab). He now performs and records as a solo artist out of New York, NY ... more

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