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Carnival Down

from Opposable Thumbs by Adam Fromm

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I started with the image from Tragically Hip's "At the Hundredth Meridian" of a rusted Ferris wheel, and ended up with a song about an arsonist on the run from forces unidentified. C'est la guerre.

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In my pocket I have a note you stuck to the mirror once
It's one I'm fairly sure you won't recall
It said, "The interview went fine,I should be home by nine
If I'm going to be much later, then I'll call"
I keep trinkets and ephemera from each corner I've turned
I have boxes full I can't seem to throw away
Now I have hotel reservations half a block from 12 Street Station
And that's all that you need to know today

chorus:
And the photographs are cracking in the heat
And the letters that you wrote are turning brown
This ticket's done me no good
This ticket's done me no good
Ever since they took the carnival down
They took the carnival down

I have boxes of magazine clipping that I've never read
I have my birthday shoes and my graduation pen
I have four old pairs of glasses, I have souvenirs from Kansas
I have a taste for whiskey that's cropping up again
And I have the paving stone we stole down in Philadelphia
I have snapshots of the ocean in every room
And I have soot trapped in my lashes and a half-full book of matches
And a vicious streak that's wider than the moon

(chorus)

I have ten years beneath my belt in your company
We love three years, we cared for seven more
And I have boxloads of remorse and no desire to stay the course
And I have dwindling time to settle up the score
And I have four thousand dollars in a deposit box
And here, I have a copy of the key
And I'm giving this to you 'cause you know what to do
If they ever bring you bad news about me

(chorus)

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from Opposable Thumbs, released August 20, 2012

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Adam Fromm Worcester, Massachusetts

New England transplant from Illinois via upstate New York, and a singer/songwriter who finally decided that the walls of his living room weren't a big enough audience. He is one-half of the folk band Murder Ballads, specifically the half with more facial hair. ... more

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