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Disappointed Blues

from Post​-​Mortem by Jesse Jay Allen

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The Disappointed Blues

From the fourth story balcony
The people below
Look like ants on the pavement
They scurry to and fro
Toward deadlines and promises
And all the in-between

Some promises are so hard to keep
When my opinion changes so much from week to week
I could say I was caught up in the moment
But, I never escaped my doubt

So I’m singing the disappointed blues
Because I know that’s how I’m going to leave you
Yes, I’m singing the disappointed blues
Because it’s the easiest thing to do

Got this job in a file room at a child support office
Row upon row of manilla folders
Each of them containing a thousand arguments

You’d come to see me on my lunchbreak
And we’d light and smoke part of the day away
And those buildings sat crumbling,
Ashen grey against the sky
We’d point and say “we’d live there if the rent weren’t
So damn high”.

You taught me how to dance in a vacant parking garage
You said, “swing your hips, lick your lips, and get lost.”
What matters is having you around
To occupy space, create sound, and
Set the days to a less lonely pace
I know you might feel used
But, you’ve such a lovely face

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from Post​-​Mortem, released August 1, 2006

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Jesse Jay Allen Tacoma, Washington

From Metropulse.com

On Dearest Echo, Allen matches thick, ambient guitar and synthesizer with Britpop melodies for an approximation of Radiohead, or Wilco at its most expansive. Allen’s solid voice has a forlorn quality that works with the music’s depressive tone. ... more

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