Death Twist from Make Tapes by Rattle Rattle
Tracklist
| 1. | Death Twist | 2:40 |
Lyrics
Every action rightly aims at some advantage.
Pleonexia, rather, aims to take-advantage-of.
His day starts about half afternoon
with a mornin' bump of coke,
three cups of sugar for two cups of coffee
and a half a pack of smokes.
Next thing you know: it's dinner and drinks—dinner is mostly drinks
—and dessert is a couple of lines.
A little grass just to take the edge off.
Quips, "We'll all be edgin' on in time."
This a song about Hunter S. Thompson
and, more specifically,
the glamourization of his rampant drug abuse.
It's got that young-person nihilistic cool.
But I don't think those young persons
can properly empathize
with a man who couldn't write for thirty years
until he shot himself and died.
And at 2 a.m., he sits down at the typewriter and types.
As if it was just a list and then it was just over.
As if it was just a list—
just a list and then it's over.
