Track 15 from "This Machine Kills Bathos" LP (Disc 1), by Patrick Porter (2006)
lyrics
STEPMOTHER BLUES
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter c. 2006)
I am a tabletop
Fitted with doilies
They have screwed
My hands to the carpet
I wanna take a walk around the chopping block
On my hands and knees
Pretend I can reconsider my position
Hate me like
You hate the world
Sleeping in my stepmother
Yellow brace to break my back
I am a coffee pot
Drip hot morning
Always pissing bile into the beaker
I wanna take a walk around the chopping block
On my hands and knees
A forced return for economic reasons
Hate me like
You hate the world
Sleeping in my stepmother
Yellow brace to break my back
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