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Protomartyr - 'A Private Understanding' (Live at 3RRR)
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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Protomartyr
Protomartyr
Performer
Sonny DiPerri
Sonny DiPerri
Remixer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Protomartyr
Protomartyr
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Protomartyr
Protomartyr
Producer
Sonny DiPerri
Sonny DiPerri
Producer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Not by my own hand
Automatic writing by a phantom limb
Not with my own voice
Pleurisy made me stand on two legs
[Verse 2]
That's how I bar my door
In this age of blasting trumpets
Paradise for fools
Infinite wrath
In the lowest deep a lower depth
[Verse 3]
I don't want to hear those vile
Trumpets anymore
Conscience wakes despair
The night is an accumulation of dark air
The scholar will be forever poor
Gross gold runs headlong to boor
[Verse 4]
I don't want to hear those vile
Trumpets anymore
Call me, Heraclitus The Obscure
Constantly weeping because the river doesn't move
It doesn't flow
It's been leaded by a snider man
To make a profit from the poor
I don't want to hear those vile
Trumpets anymore
[Verse 5]
People live with a private understanding
Sorrow's the wind blowing through
Truth is hiding in the wire
[Verse 6]
Elvis outside of Flagstaff
Driving a camper van
Looking for meaning in a cloud mass
Sees the face of Joseph Stalin
And is disheartened
[Verse 7]
Then the wind changed the cloud
Into his smiling lord
And he was affected profoundly
But he could never describe the feeling
He passed away on the bathroom floor
[Verse 8]
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
[Verse 9]
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
[Verse 10]
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
[Verse 11]
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
[Verse 12]
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
She's just trying to reach you
Written by: Protomartyr

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