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Big Old Mansion Lyrics by ​xgum

Ruth

2019

Pop-Pop used to write us Target stories
I only remember a few things about it
While it writes I edit in the margins
Crossing the page my letters enlarge and
Keeping from my hand in the same place
I’m left handed
Big old mansion
Running around it
Looking for teeth
Smile for me
A painted leaf
As if an artist came out
Where I am now
And covered the plant
In red-ochre and brown
A heron flying low
On the lake coast
Frosted in the sun
Like a sperm samplе
Has a final meal
So much as I see
Ίησούς ʹο Ναζωραιος βασιλεύς τών Ίουδαιών
Here is thе church and here is the steeple
Tobacco head buzz
We are all created equal
Although we’re not created
But we’re lucky to exist
Although luck is not a true thing
And neither is coincidence
And oh
My name is
And oh
My comfort with guitar is improving
Oh
My name is
And oh
Big old mansion
Big old mansion
I watch the hawk as he’s getting its food
Open a window to open your own mood
I like the lake at eleven in the morning in November
Thank you but it’s turning stale
In Hagia Sophia there’s a beautiful mosaic
Of Jonah and the Whale with vegetal lacing
It also contains a Dionysian type
This is a one-hundred year old Cuban pipe
We should all know the call of our own state bird
It brightens our days whenever it is heard
Where I am now with painted leaves
It’s the sound of a cardinal relieved
It’s the sound of a carnival bereaved
And oh
My name is
And oh
My comfort with guitar is improving
Oh
My name is
And oh
Big old mansion
Big old mansion
Big old mansion
Big old mansion
Ted Fucking Danson
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"Big Old Mansion" appears on "Ruth" in 2019.

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