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And The Plates Keep Spinning​.​.​. Pt​.​1

from The Man Who Loved Beer by Kevin P. Gilday

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My life is dictated by my bank account
Digital digits displaying an arbitrary amount
An abstract expression of my personal freedom
Missing the laughs like a Dad's Army re-run
Drifting aimlessly like a sallow corpse on the dead sea
Because cash rules everything around me

And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...

And I try to be a good man, with all that entails
But I go to sleep each night on a bed of nails
Gnawing doubts surround and attack
Haemorrhaging hope like I'm tied to a train track
I try to be a man of honesty, truth and love
But trouble just fits me, hand in glove

And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...

And my family doesn't even know who I am
They receive coded missives from a mysterious man
Purporting to be their son or brother
Scheduling conflicts just to see my mother
I try to explain to how hard it is to breathe
Absent, as always, without leave

And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...

You might say I'm a wank, but I know I'm an artist
Explaining what I do is always the hardest
Sit around all day with my dick in my hand
Experience more anguish than any man should withstand
Just to jot down a few lines of kinetic creativity
Before deleting them again, alone unequivocally

And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...

My time is siphoned by the beast of necessity
My days spent in a faded room sealed hermetically
Just to make enough money to eek out an existence
Keep breathing due to others insistence
While debt casts a shadow across all future endeavours
Contributing to a rising arterial pressure

And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...
And the plates keep spinning...

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from The Man Who Loved Beer, released June 21, 2015

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Kevin P. Gilday is an award-winning writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow, Scotland.

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