Mesopotamian Blues

from Allegoria by Melanie A. Davis

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I got a lot going on in my head like,
would I really be better off dead?
Or was that just something cool I said?
Is the depressing isolation all a part
of the cause? Just a backlit distraction from the lion’s
claws? More preventative measures
for making sure our brains don’t thaw?
And you’re just as scared as me, you say, and
all we can do is hope and pray, but I called God -
he had moved away. Paper dolls thrown in the
trash, you wanna leave? So make it fast.
Blowout the last cigarette ash.
I got a lot going on in my brain, wondering
if this is what it’s like to go insane. So the
Midwest’s not the best for working on
emotional range. Are we doomed as a species
to just wander lost? Had some finer greater
purpose, but we just forgot? Time to clear
your head darlin’, your favorite TV show is on.
Masses of people torn apart,
convinced they work in affairs of the heart
turning chemical deficits into art.
But that’s not what you meant, you said,
as you lay down in your little bed,
but you think to yourself,
maybe this is for the best?

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from Allegoria, released January 24, 2020
vox/guitar/keyboard: Melanie A. Davis
lead guitar: Fate McAfee
Recorded @ Welcome to 1979 (Nashville, TN)

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Melanie A. Davis Murray, Kentucky

Singer-songwriter from western Kentucky. I sing about me, you, us, and the wild weird world we're currently living in.

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