Windowless Room
from Absalom by Donovan Quinn
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lyrics
Wintering in a windowless room
At the end of the city proper
It has a charm, an antique gloom
Well, I’m through with puppy love
The dirty rug and frying smell
I’m told it’s the first ring of Hell
The bastard son become the man undone
There are many and I am one
“No one’s love, no one’s heir”
I’m through with teenage kicks
Built my world with mud and sticks
When I couldn’t buy the bricks
Hard to laugh at 3AM
When you look into the eyes of your own best friend
And he says “whatever happened to you?”
Holed up in my rented room
Put my affairs in order
But I need a friend in the government
To get me through the border
There is fire in the well
Here in the first ring of Hell
Lost in the twilight dim
With the window shoppers
I sometimes still think of you
At the end of the city proper
With tenements in endless facsimile
Slow traffic and barren trees.
At the end of the city proper
It has a charm, an antique gloom
Well, I’m through with puppy love
The dirty rug and frying smell
I’m told it’s the first ring of Hell
The bastard son become the man undone
There are many and I am one
“No one’s love, no one’s heir”
I’m through with teenage kicks
Built my world with mud and sticks
When I couldn’t buy the bricks
Hard to laugh at 3AM
When you look into the eyes of your own best friend
And he says “whatever happened to you?”
Holed up in my rented room
Put my affairs in order
But I need a friend in the government
To get me through the border
There is fire in the well
Here in the first ring of Hell
Lost in the twilight dim
With the window shoppers
I sometimes still think of you
At the end of the city proper
With tenements in endless facsimile
Slow traffic and barren trees.
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from Absalom,
released December 5, 2019
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Donovan Quinn San Francisco, California
"I think probably my life would have gone differently if I had been able to afford a surfboard." -- Bobby Beausoleil from a prison cell in California.
discography
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Dec 2019 -
Jun 2019 -
Mar 2017 -
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Feb 2012 -
Jan 2008 -
Feb 2003
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Donovan Quinn recommends:
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Surrender To the Fantasy
by Magik Markersgreat record!
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Toth's Law - Volume 2
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Under Bent Limb Trees
by Hush Arborsgreat record!
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