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Obliterate

from Gone Gone Gone by Fred Gillen Jr

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Memories like weeds are choking my eyes
you’d think I was eighty years the way they leave me blind
if I don’t find a way to get away for a couple of hours
they may end up strangling these few, ragged flowers
temptation is the only thing that seems
to take these ghosts out of my dreams
but if I succumb I wind up worse than before
I need a clean slate, I need a tape I can erase
I need something to obliterate my thoughts and dreams
I wish I was dumb sometimes, but I’m not
so I’ll have to get numb

I’ve painted my history in blood and now I’ll no longer cry
sometimes I wish I had a switch to turn off my mind’s eye
you come along in Technicolor with my salvation in your hand
I lay my head on your breast, too tired to make a stand
I need a clean slate, I need a tape I can erase
I need something to obliterate my thoughts and dreams
I wish I was dumb sometimes, but I’m not
so I’ll have to get numb

beautiful nurse please do something to ease my pain
I don’t care about tomorrow morning, it’s still far far away
take off your white hat and let down your hair
like Rapunzel,let me climb you because I can’t find the stair
we can sigh together ‘till the morning comes

How many times can you watch one scene
rewind and rewind and rewind again
turn the channel, I need to laugh untill I’m sore

I need a clean slate, I need to obliterate
My incriminating history
I need some mystery instead of misery
Something to make me forget
Make me forget, make me forget

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from Gone Gone Gone, track released April 1, 2006

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Fred Gillen Jr Athens, New York

NYFA grant recipient Fred Gillen Jr has released 12 solo albums, and 6 ep’s, has toured all over the U.S. and Europe solo, and Nepal/ India with Greenheart. His songs have been on ABC's "All My Children," NPR's "Car Talk," CMJ, and his version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" was featured on Pete Seeger's "Pete Remembers Woody." He is also a founding member of THE TRIKE rock trio. ... more

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