The Workaday Lament

from The Twelve Hundred Custom EP by scrub jays

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When you’re away dear, and the house is so still,
The quiet empty sounds wear down my will.
There’s rye on the counter and the glass is right there,
My whole damn Sunday disappears in the air.

I’m a Bad Rover boys, and I’ve been here for a while.
I traded in my wages for a temporary smile,
And I drank in the lies from old John Barleycorn,
And I’m left in the rubble of a life that he has torn.

So I have a burden, it's a secret that I know.
It’s a door through the drivel to a kingdom that I own.
My sentiments are locked up in a place that I can’t reach,
Except for when I’m sippin on that old brown whiskey.

Its a crazy illusion, its a delicate farce.
It levels out my head and then it puts me on my arse.
For every god-like minute in that fantasy land,
An equivalent time spent under the devil’s command.

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from The Twelve Hundred Custom EP, released April 8, 2015

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scrub jays Corvallis, Oregon

Songs inspired by the many various traditions of american music, blending regional influences in a mash-up of familiar styles that captures the songwriter's own experiences living in beautiful Cascadia - and beyond.

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