Ruby Slippers

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Simon Joyner

Simon Joyner (born 1971) is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Considered by some[citation needed] to be the forefather of the burgeoning Omaha music scene[citation needed], he has profoundly influenced the music of Bright Eyes. Joyner also collaborated with John Darnielle, of The Mountain Goats, and Beck listed Joyner in his top 10 albums when asked by Rolling Stone. He is also famous for the so called "Peel Incident," when famous British DJ John Peel played his album The Cowardly Traveller Pays His Toll from beginning to end on air. Joyner is named after Paul Simon. more »

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Ruby Slippers 
 
These burning halogen lights cause 
cancer in laboratory mice 
I read that somewhere, you know it could be true 
Why don’t you flip the switch 
so we can start our stupid fight? 
In the dark you can picture me any way you want to 
 
Come out from behind your razor blades 
and try to be sensitive for a change 
There’s got to be more to life  
than sifting through this garbage 
You’re the blip that became the bombshell 
I’m the woman who became your chick 
But I don’t need this  
I’ll scissors-paper-rock you for the Kleenex 
 
Nature doesn’t abhor a vacuum  
just to hear itself suck 
and that’s why a fool like me, 
that’s why a chick like me 
always falls in love (with a jerk like you) 
 
You know you could get a tapeworm 
from running around barefoot in the grass like that? 
Well, you could get arrested  
for singing all of your slanderous lies 
I try to tell the truth, just in little 
digestible pieces at a time 
You call that the truth? That’s not the truth  
and that’s why you can never open your eyes 
 
Don’t march off half-cocked, love 
Next time, don’t fall down, half-blind 
You can still pretend you’re a genius 
but I know, I’m a loser 
Check out the innocent kids 
playing four-square under the sour streetlight 
They’re too young to know 
Judy Garland died in ruby slippers 
 
The heart abhors a vacuum, 
my Ma used to say 
And that’s why a fool like me, 
yes, that’s why a jerk like me 
always runs away

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