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– If you’re alright say yeah!
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– [Crowd] Yeah!
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– And if you’re alright say yeah!
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– [Crowd] Yeah!
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– Say yeah!
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– [Crowd] Yeah!
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– Say yeah! – [Crowd] Yeah!
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– My father is a mansion.
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My father is a mansion.
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My father is made of myths.
0:33
Each vaulted ceiling more elaborate than the last.
0:38
My father is a trophy in a clan of empty frames.
0:42
Fork in the most violent of rivers.
0:46
He is a detective, a therapist, sax player,
0:50
water walker, a nobody, weaver whose mouth spills stories
0:54
like moths, he is legend.
0:56
He is both arms flown into the sky of a bomb blast.
1:00
Storm of a thousand swallowed keys.
1:03
Candle in a cave without an entrance.
1:06
His wine glass sloshes into his lap at red lights.
1:10
His empty groove in the mattress,
1:12
racket of hard back Dickens through drywall.
1:15
He helps people fish inside themselves for the right lies.
1:19
He is other women’s name and locked cabinets.
1:22
One eye cast over his shoulder for shrapnel.
1:25
He is vomit on the bedroom carpet of my home.
1:28
He is scholar of bomb blasts.
1:31
Both arms around me made of myths and keys
1:34
and red lights and other women.
1:36
He is a pile of snipped strings and snot in a rehab
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waiting room.
1:41
He is a hard back water walker.
1:44
A fishing tale.
1:45
An elaborate entrance.
1:48
(cheers) (applause)
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