Underpaid Artists
The Quill Pen Gallery
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Artists are meant to die at 25 without a job At least that's what I tell myself 'Cause playing bass in a punk rock trio doesn't pay the bills You either passion play or waste away among your dying thrills Maddie was a painter in a liberal college town Her parents killed her joy for it as she was art school bound And now she smokes a pack a day and wonders what went wrong "There's no cash in art" she said "in paint or word or song" Jake's ambitions lead him to make some indie folk He learned to play the fiddle with Mark who played banjo They were only 16 when they played their first basement gig A drummer from another band said "You're gonna make it big" They sent demos to the A&Rs but never heard a word Their parents were so sick of it as their grades had took a turn While they were in English, their instruments were sold To some other sad sack trying to express their soul And in a fit of rage, Jake and Mark had hit their moms Embroiled in the heat, correctional facilities were called Now they are conditioned to be faceless businessmen Another dreamer turned in to the fascist system's head Jeffrey was a redneck bound to be the smartest man alive He'd dig the worms out of the dirt and teach them how to dive He took them to Lake Irena north of Hazleton, PA Fingers crossed, he let them off, and they drowned the very next day He was only 6 when he discovered Newton's Laws He tried to push a boulder down a hill to kill a dog And late at night, he'd sneak down to the train tracks in the woods And wonder when they'd roll by, but for years they never would Impatient as a boy he felt his stomach tie in knots When teacher in geometry would ask for proofs and thoughts He got cosine of 2pi and the class laughed in his face He said, "You call this experience, I call this a disgrace." So that night he wrote a song with his father's old guitar He only knew a G chord but the words were from the heart He prayed to God to have this be a sign of what to do He recorded it with a cassette before the tape had split in two That fateful night in '96, he was just 17 He found his father's rifle that he used for killing geese "If my song was meant to just spill out onto the deck Than what am I still waiting for?" As the metal left his chest Artists don't just leave their art without a sense of pride They've cut slivers of their souls and laid them to a canvas' eye To strip them of this humanity is but the greatest crime Another underpaid artist, waiting now to die
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