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Mr. Jade

from Blueprints of Ruins by Jim Perry

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A Ken Jason anger poem that I tried to write music to. Dylan on steroids.

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You crush out your cigarette in the glass graveyard ashtray
You try so hard to forget where all the corpse dreams lay
The ash and butt of time - still smolders in your mind
And you wonder where you’ll stay tomorrow

You gaze at your reflection for some magic way to cope
You fear the next inspection of your closet of hope
The mirror of your soul - so distorted and so cold
And you’re drowning in your self-inflicted sorrow

CHORUS: The specter, he says you cannot hide
Then the illusion starts to fade
And once you see truth, then you know you’ve made the grade
So welcome to the real world, Mr. Jade

You’re sick of all the violence coming out of your TV
Things that once were sacred are now drowning out at sea
The image on the screen - it strikes you as obscene
Cause anything resembling class has shattered

You walk the streets in silence all the faces there are new
Political correctness seals your lips to what is true
You stammer through the day - not knowing what to say
You don’t who will spit, and who’ll be flattered

CHORUS:

The beer cans lie like tombstones out along the open road
The garbage that you wade through, it leaves your senses cold
The waste and filth that’s there - leaves you gasping for air
As you walk along the road, a constant stranger

Your isolated state of mind becomes a constant fear
The bitterness comes out of you in anger and in tears
The landscape in your mind - is littered with land mines
You wander through your days in constant danger

CHORUS:

Where the towers stood is now a heaping pile of steel
A twisted harsh reminder of a world that’s all too real
A hate that’s all consuming - a cloud that’s dark and glooming
It’s now quite clear that innocence has ended

The missiles are all aimed right at the helpless and the meek
Countries being spat upon and pillaged as we speak
And in the caves they plan - the deaths of fellow man
And never will this shattered earth be mended

CHORUS:

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from Blueprints of Ruins, released July 1, 2007
Produced, written and performed by Jim Perry
Lyrics by Ken Jason

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Jim Perry has had a long and legendary career in central New England. Through the years, he has played with some of the best talent in the Boston/Worcester music scene.

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