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Cold Comfort

by Cold Comfort

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1.
Community College 02:44
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My dad was a self made man of good reputation Born poor only 3rd grade education Born into Jim Crow’s racist nation, sharecropping on the same land as the plantation Drafted in 45 for the duration was happy to come back alive at the cessation Got out the bus station a short term GI, but even with flags on his shoulder couldn’t look a white man in the eye He said boy get your own or watch it all slip away Don’t start something won’t be nothing one day He found a rebirth in the bottom of the cup Following his brothers he sipped and slipped up Found his way to the little country church Found a book a bible found a chapter found a verse Found his a way past the plow and never looked behind him Founded a church downtown homeless and hungry knew where to find Found a family and a life no one would have predicted Now they packing the church to celebrate his existence He said boy get your own or watch it all slip Don’t start something won’t be nothing one day
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Spite 04:35
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Sick of all the abuse, I’m torn and bruised thanks You call me confused, I prefer used wait Accustomed to lose this time I’ll choose blanks I blunt the excuse designed to diffuse hate A tempest would break and I am reckless what I do to spite the world Crashing on my shores I am reckless what I do to spite your world Imprison me in time I am reckless what I do to spite the world Say you have words for me I am reckless what I do to spite the world I’m losing my sheen, I’m no longer clean I’m stuck in the dream since I was 13 I’m stuck on the lip, I’m wasting my grip on scum I suffer a shift, it all went so quick I’m done A tempest would break and I am reckless what I do to spite the world Crashing on my shores I am reckless what I do to spite your world Imprison me in time I am reckless what I do to spite the world Say you have words for me I am reckless what I do to spite the world
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Citizen 03:40
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Random citizen are you still here, may I impose on your time There’s but seconds to waste and it will go overtime can’t you tell Check your watch never fear, as if you would as if you would Now pocket your wallet and take your cue, your money is refused it’s no good here And can’t your eyes meet mine do you prefer the texts of long ago That you’d race to their comfort misgivings in tow If you expect me to submit, come claim your prize If you expect me to live I expect you to try If you expect a gift it comes as no surprise That if you want me to commit I better come back alive Your number rang me false and your silence did the same O I’m staring you dead in your face You quicken your step across the walk shouldering me into the blame I heap fire on your head and wine in your cup but your fingers gnaw the wall O pretend to have slept but we all know you saw, we all know you saw O pretend to have slept but we all know you saw can’t drink and now you can’t talk If you expect me to submit, come claim your prize If you expect me to live I expect you to try If you expect a gift it comes as no surprise That if you want me to commit I better come back alive I better make it out alive I prefer to lend, you insisted you’d buy I wanted a friend but swore off the tribe I pleaded my rights you swore off the bribe Treated as strange what I believed fine Lion I was in the pride of life Hunting for something left me blind Hunting for something left me blind But I better make it out alive If you expect me to submit, come claim your prize If you expect me to live I expect you to try If you expect a gift it comes as no surprise That if you want me to commit I better make it out alive Better make it out alive
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Debris 07:00
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We’re just a bunch of castaways who ever said we’d learn from our mistakes Pieces of debris tossed out to sea, the riptide caught us both but I wandered close to the brink I wondered if I’d ever forgive me Words were whispered close as if circling sharks would overhear But nothing would drown the copper metallic taste of fear I swore to my God I could heal I would heal If I could stretch out my hand and feel you were near Now I clung to a cross and you clung to a raft I would cry aloud and you would condescend to laugh What crystallized on our faces could have saved nations but they fell on their faces and disgraced us The wasters There’s no place for their kind there’s no saving them tonight But oh how quickly we forget the very reason we broke sweat is now highly suspect Wasn’t for sex but something like it nah, dear God When I gasped and I was nearly spent, you saw my gaps and filled me in And considered it nothing more than what you were meant to do So here’s to you girl, know this I don’t even care at all Flailing in the water I don’t care if you fall It means nothing to me now Flailing in the water I don’t care if you drown It means nothing to me now
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Scar 06:04
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Can’t you see my scars, hidden by my age? Can’t you see my scars bidden by the play? Can’t you see my scars, smitten with the stage? Can’t you see my scars, can’t you see? Can’t you see my scars, glittering with age? Can’t you see I’m barred, barred from this place? Can’t you see I’m harmed, harmed by this way? Can’t you heal my wandering eyes? Can’t you see the dark, cuz in the dark we’re all the same? Can’t you see my heart, my heart can’t share the pain Can’t you see my scars, resemblance to Cain? Unable to breathe, I shall remain Unable to breathe, I shall remain Can’t my spark, it’s better for the change? Can’t you see the marks all seeming rather tame? Can’t you see my heart regain its maiden name? Or can’t you linger like a candle’s flame? Why can’t you linger like a candle’s flame? Stick your hook into my tongue and draw me into you Cuz I bit the lure to follow the only light I ever knew Right beyond the confines of my home It shimmered so convincingly I wandered up all alone And found I could not breathe the sun I could not bear the skeleton I’d become I bit the lure thinking I could tear my jaw free I recognize the trap but it still holds the treat At least probably I bit the lure the tip had rusted bare Fallen to the bottom an old cynic had placed it there I gasped and thrashed and choked Spat at last, it was in my throat Drawing me into your pole To your shore, to your hall Taking pleasure in the fall as if I were the last of leaves The first taste was sugar, the second rust My teeth bit down in hunger but collapsed on trust Finding bite marks not my own Why can’t you linger like a candles flame?

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released May 27, 2014

Written by Cold Comfort

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Jose Gonzalez at Dagonz Audio Productions

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