Roll & Tumble from Astronaut by Alan Swanwick

You pound on that monkey, beat on the meat,
You gotta get that gorilla off your back boy,
So you move forward, you retreat
Your tongue is all twisted,
And your mind is a mess,
I’m sorry ma, I couldn’t be there more,
I wish I was locked inside less.

There’s a cast iron bell tolling in my ear,
Feels like grief is a gun holding up my tears
I’m sick as a junkie and I’m proud as a queer,
And there’s tension in the air,

You gotta let it go,
Roll and tumble,
You gotta let it go,
Roll and tumble

Prayers are like stowaways in a desperate man’s throat,
You inhale them down deeply like cigarette smoke,
And you blow them out gentle into a sky of hope
Keeling ships and lifeboats
Boy’s got the smote, he found his second truth,
And there’s an echo where they should be no echo,
I think it’s God falling off the roof

And the stone angles where bird feaces like scars,
They’ve come undone like the God’s and the stars
And there’s a corpse in the cradle of my memories trope, and I’m desperately low.
You gotta let it go,
Roll and tumble
You gotta let it go,
Roll and tumble

You gotta get it out,
It’s all in your head,
You gotta break the egg,
You gotta get it out, get it out

Agent orange smile, napalm in your hair,
Nurse Betty and Doctor Seuss, they don’t care,
They’re just sucking the air,
And they’re fucking I swear,
And there’s a magpie over there,
And I’m stoned again and I shouldn’t be but it’s the only way I can bear,
Its the only way I can bear,
Ain’t it hard, ain’t it hard, ain’t it oh so easy to let it be so damn hard

You gotta let it go,
Roll and tumble,
You gotta let it go,
Roll and tumble

You gotta let it go
Roll and tumble,
You gotta let it go
Roll and tumble,

You gotta get it out,
it’s all in your head,
You gotta break the egg, you gotta get it out

I’m going to sprinkle the dead, you gotta get it out,
I’m going to take the red pill baby, you gotta get it out

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