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New Tricks

from Roulette Girl by Mary Prankster

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I went to years of public schools, those education tractor pulls
It gave me a diploma and a scar
“I want to be a star!” I cried. They said, “You’re overqualified.
Why don’t you learn to tune your damned guitar?”

I fucked a bunch of stupid men, went back and fucked ‘em all again
Was never much for romance anyhow
Pressing Sunday comic art onto my silly putty heart
It doesn’t break, just bends a little now

I was gonna change the world through music, I was gonna fall in love
I was gonna live the good life I’d been hearing so much of
I was gonna be a rock star, baby - I was gonna have some fun
I sure miss twenty-one

Every friend a starving artist, argue over who’s the smartest
Every contest ending in a draw
Masquerade as petty thugs and do some psychedelic drugs
Nipping at the ankles of the law

We were gonna start a revolution, we were gonna make the scene
We were gonna marry movie stars and storm the silver screen
We were gonna write important novels, we were gonna start a band
It hasn’t gone as planned

Spent more years than I remember in a club where every member
Never feels as if he quite belongs
Searching for my pleasure in some brand-new kind of deadly sin
My life is just as aimless as my songs

I’m gonna make it back to college, I’m gonna quit my job
I’m gonna buy the store that I’d been planning just to rob
I’m gonna teach this old dog new tricks, drinking from the brimming cup
As soon as I wake up

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from Roulette Girl, released January 1, 1999

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Lyrically merciless, genre-promiscuous Charm City cult hero with a fanbase of thinking men's men and fierce, god-like women. Sign up for the mailing list at maryprankster.com for info on new tunes and more...

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