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Dental Record Shimmy

from 33 Songs for 33 People by Henrietta Toughlove

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Pile your gold pile your diamonds
stack your coins and pile your notes
pile all your wicked dividends
pile your houses, pile your boats

pile your teeth, pile your fingers,
stack your bones up to the sky
pile your dreams like so much laundry
then sit and wait around die

you can tell yourself you've built something
that will last beyond your breath
but once you dead, you done, my friend,
time's a thief, but there's nothing left

Just one thing that I know
can't take it with you when you go-o-o

Make friends of all the injured
make love, and never make war,
make all of our burdens lighter
make all of our hearts feel secure

Make the crying man feel better
make the laughing girl feel strong
make sure the puppy has a blanket
teach the children to sing all night long

you can tell yourself you've built something
that will last beyond your breath
but once you dead, you done, my friend,
time's a thief, but there's nothing left

Just one thing that I know
can't take it with you when you go-o-o

Perhaps you'll be reborn a tailor
or a dust mite, or an eagle, or a snipe,
but the only part you'll remember
is there's nothing to remember, good night.

and you can think you got it all sorted
that living is only to die
and everyone else is just stupid
moaning and wondering why

you might think that every decision
means nothing more than the last
proclaim yourself existential
and then, when the end comes at last

you can tell yourself you know something
but what you know is really a void
cause once you dead, you done, my friend,
and even the thief is destroyed

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from 33 Songs for 33 People, released December 29, 2020
Arrangement: Henrietta Toughlove. Performance: Rob G., Ashley P., Marc P.

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We make pop music that is messy, prickly, weirdly mixed, and free for anyone that wants it.

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