Name: Grinnin Maniac
Duration: P00H03M02S
Description: One of those songs where I just started strumming and the words came... kind of narrator gone over the edge into surreality - not without humor though.

Grinnin Maniac

from Every Minute by Thinkspeak

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One of those songs where I just started strumming and the words came... kind of narrator gone over the edge into surreality - not without humor though.

lyrics

Everywhere I look I see a grinnin maniac
I'm not hallucinatin
I seen'em just this morning at the track
I'm not just story makin
he opened up his coat and there was nothin there
I turned around and ran into a 4th dimension square
before I found my way out I heard a sea dog bark
it might have been a princess wailin might have been a narc

2.
in the subway and the laundry and the grocery
I'm not imaginatin
he lurks about suburban neighborhoods
I'm not just fabricatin
I looked into a job and he was at the desk
I stepped into the closet and I felt his clammy breath
and even though it can't be he does the morning news
I heard him testify as he was standing on the moon

3.
when I see him now I'm just a little paranoid
I'm not illusionating
he winks and tugs his moustache just like Freud
I'm not schizophrenic-fakin
I glanced under the table he was grinnin at my knee
I slipped into the twilight where I lost my memory
and even though I've asked him to he won't discuss the past
he simply says with wizened whisper nothing here will last

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from Every Minute, released September 2, 2012

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Thinkspeak Atlanta, Georgia

Tom Ferguson has been writing songs since 1969, all of which are collected in Songs, 1969-2018. It's coil-bound to nicely fit a music stand, available at lulu.com just search tom ferguson there.

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