Animated Doll

I never knew how little I knew

But it’s getting though to me now.

Nothing I do of the little I do

Seems to ring true to me now.

Commitment evades me

I don’t feel involved at all.

I’m just going through the motions

Like an animated doll.

I never knew.  I neverknew.

I never knew how lucky I was

Maybe nobody does when they’re young.

A couple mistakes, that’s all it takes

You can never erase what you’ve done.

Now I can fake a range of feelings

I can weep like a waterfall.

You’d never guess that you were dealing

With an animated doll.

I never knew.  I neverknew.

The mind in my skull exerts a powerful pull

Like the pull of the moon on the tides.

Like my heart in its cage

And though neither can gauge

Clearly enough to be guides.

Where they’ll lead I’ll follow

I will follow till I fall.

Head and heart as hollow

As an animated doll.

Peter Blegvad: Animated Doll (Link From Downtime)

When The Work Was New

--  There She Blows -- 

When theWork was New --

It was Easyto do --

Though weworked 10 Times Harder than we do now --

It did notseem So Hard Somehow --

It did not seem So Hard Somehow.

 

When I first Loved you --

Baby sometimes I Still Do --

Only a Miracle would make me Break My Vow --

It would Not take So Much now --

NO -- It Would Not Take SO Much now.

They ought to take me Out and Shoot me --
Do me a favor and and Do me --

Put me outof my Misery Like a Broken Horse --

I don’t minddying – I’m Lying, of course.

Now when the Axe Comes Down --

You stand up and look around --

And where the buildings stood, there's Only Empty Air --

And where Your True Love Laughed

Now there's No One there--

And where your Old Man was--

Now there's No One there.

They ought to Shoot me --
Do me a favor and and Do me --

Put me outof my Misery Like a Broken Horse --

I don’t minddying – I’m Lying, of course.

I drink toomuch, I drink too fast

Whether a bottle to a glass

FromChateauneuf-du-Pape to Thunderbird --

I Prefer MySenses Blurred --

I Prefer My Senses Blurred -- 

I Prefer My Senses Blurred. 

Musical Link:

Peter Blegvad: When The Work Was New (From Downtime)