I Won't Pick Up The Phone

from Black Flag EP by Matt Ellin

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Piano by Victoria Park
Mastered by Eric Benoit

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So now I've learned all of the reasons to exist
And plus I've spent a hot minute corroborating it
No, I will never wish harm upon my health
Still I would like the universe to leave me somber by myself
I'll breathe fire to cut down all the trees
Use 'em to build a sanctuary home, a noble house for me
Is all this lazy love necessary?
Sorry friends
I'm a jerk
Do good work

I won't pick up the phone

These days there's not as much skunk smoke in my breath
And I've stayed quiet since my eighth grade dynamite death
But still I think I know exactly what you mean
It's just that I've been petrified of people ever since I was thirteen
And I am four years older than that now
And I still haven't died yet and it's a wonder to me how God really seems to want us all to stay alive
But I don't know if God is real, I really can't make up my mind
My soul will sleep in incandescent fever songs
I'll play the guitar and my idea of God can sometimes sing along and if I can't live off of that on its own
Goodbye God
I'm not here
I'm not home

I won't pick up the phone

But still this putrid purity, though it plagues me, is my own

Now I have very real life skills
I don't know how I'll go about adult functions like paying bills
I never learned how to read a map, but as long as I make music is it arbitrary to know all that crap?
See my eternity sadness expand and as soon as I commence its collapse, I can be a moral man
And though it isn't wise to walk off misery,
I'll walk it off

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from Black Flag EP, released February 6, 2017

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Matt Ellin New York, New York

Singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, Theophobia member, performer

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