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Poindexter

from Landlocked (album) by David Morrison

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Remember the 80's? The horror of Reagan omnipresently looming over everything, like some grotesque dirigible blotting out the light of reason and sanity? It gave me nightmares. This song is about one of those nightmares.

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I could have dreamed that I met Lincoln
I could have dreamed anything else
I could have dreamed that I had duck feet
I could have dreamed anything else

But here comes Admiral Poindexter
Trepanning for the new race
He's caught me like a butterfly

Oh how did I get in here?
Oh what do they want from me?
Oh god, I can't look
Don't make me one of them

I should have known those Reagan cowboys
Mad dogs and milkmen weren't done with me yet
There's no escape from the island of stupid
Help us remember to make you forget

Watch the screen and move your arms
Along with the bouncing ball
Take the drug 'til you chew the rug

Oh how did we get in here?
The drug isn't working
I'm going to remember this
Don't make me one of them

We could be dreaming a translucent garden
Flowers so fragrant in silvery light
And yet here we are tossing and turning
Plowing the ocean night after night

'Cause here comes Uncle Poindexter
Captain of all memory
He's helping us get comfortable

Oh how did I get in here?
Oh what do they want from me?
Oh god I can't look
Don't make me one of them
One of them
Don't make me

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from Landlocked (album), released June 12, 2011
Words and music © David Morrison 2010 BMI

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David Morrison Wimberley, Texas

Singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, producer. Occasional guest vocalist w/The Rudy Schwartz Project, Farrago Ensemble, The Able Sea & others. Has played hundreds of solo & band shows & been
featured on Church of the Subgenius show. Coproduced the Glimmer Blinkken's Golden Days & mixed the Mustn'ts EP. Currently w/the Lemon Settlement & the Swangles. Runs Rat Palace Recording. ... more

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