Urge? I have none

 

Panther stopped and visited me at the reliquias outpost looking for a scratch behind the ear...doesn't he just look like a mini-black panther?

Got a long sad history with this tune, but in this case it was the first one that came to mind when I thought of Panther, who was a shelter score, so he may have indeed been a stray cat at sometime. Had an all black cat when I was a kid that I named Magic. Still have the faintest of scars on my face from when he scratched to shit outta me when I saved from a dog...he was like, fuck that, I know how to save myself, let me fucking go and I will climb that tree right fucking there...hahah.

Spot keeping me company at bedtime...she's a keeper

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

One day I saw a man asleep

In a doorway on the street

Through walls of sheltered inhibition

I perceived his condition.

Dying of hunger and exposure,

Food and shelter, two blocks over.

Within this place we breed and dwell

We've created living hell.

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

City sleeps and pigeons flutter,

Vagrant dies in the gutter

Prideless death somehow befitting

To life spent working on forgetting.

Riding on the bus, I looked outside and thought about death

Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath.

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell.

Then I went home, to get my mind off things,

I decided to watch television.

Constant subliminal brain immersion

Subconscious death wish coercion.

Buy and consume and want and need

Never fall from the trap of greed.

I thought about the bitter pain

Of jail cells and falling rain,

I thought ahead and I looked away,

What can you do anyway ?

In sheltered youth and our pretension

Avert our eyes to divert attention

Only to see the human victims

Always there to remind us.

Sleep long, sleep well

Only to awake in hell. 

Only to awake in hell

White Magic? Black Magic? What am I to do?

Still in awe of my dog...so rad in some ways and such a dickhead in others...very human.

The perfect song for my dog, who is really just an extension of myself. I have a long history of dickhead-dom...numerous examples available upon request :)

...but my cup runneth over...hahah...right?

Heard this on Humboldt Hot Air tonight on James & Patty's Dinner Party (minus James tonight)...Monday nights from 6-8 west coast time. The other show for me is of course Jefe's, Leftoverking Smorgasbord on Friday nights from 6-8. Not only do I fucking love this music but I should have known I'd probably dig it if it came from KEXP...I haven't had time to fully explore their channel but you want a fucking solid example of some seriously captivating artists, these folks would be a great start! Good night to the real or imagined....