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Whores are changing in the alley, pebbles in their shoes.
All the people on the corner with their mortgages and blues.
I’m screaming through the traffic lights, emptying my mind.
Ready for tomorrow morning’s elevator ride.

Wake up with the trash collectors clanging in my head.
I switch off the alarm as I try to leave my bed.
Rushing through the coffee and the early morning news.
The streets are filled with zombies and lawyers make the rules –
Empty-headed zombies leading children to the moon.

Headed to the office on the 32nd floor,
You know my head is getting dizzy, I stumble through the door.
All day I’m chasing money like the cure for some disease,
Just living that old story ‘bout the forest and the trees.
Starving in the forest and hiding ‘neath the trees.

Home about eleven, like the night and night before.
My baby’s in the bed so I’m sleeping on the floor.
Beat out like a carpet as I crawl into the night.
Ready for tomorrow morning’s elevator ride.
Ready for tomorrow morning’s elevator ride.

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from Bow and Be Simple, released March 20, 2012

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Matt Harlan Houston, Texas

Matt Harlan is a troubadour of the first degree, bringing songs of bus-stops, coffee-shops and lives overlooked to stages across his home-state of Texas, the USA and Europe. His expressive vocals recall Chris Smither and Chris Knight, shading his poignant songs with soaring heart and aching grit. ... more

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