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Death is a Beach

by The Submensas

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The American Dream: big, broad, beautiful . . . and a death sentence. Life, as it is, is a beach, where you lay down until your bones bleach. It’s hard to break the monotonous cycle of daily existence with the rip tide pulling at us . . . although it may seem fun at first. Maybe it still is, even as we surf the pipeline of death.

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DEATH IS A BEACH

They lift their legs high
To avoid the rip tide
But the going is slow
And when they look back
They see the huge wave
Descending and drenching
And sucking them in
And leaving them shiver —

Splintered generations
Roar past their heads
And in their eyes
And they start itching
Itching over and over
Little teensy slivers
Wind their way inside
And clog their tubes . . .
As they pick
and choose.

And so
Majestic
Black stream
Seizure
Starts
To clean
Their bones

And they’re
Too tired
Too tired
for the
playground
And so
They lay down

They lay down.

In the coral reefs
Full of cultural barnacles
With the layers peeling
With their life exposed
And they look back
And they see the huge wave
They see the rip tide
They see the rip -

tide.

(C) Damon Norko 1983, 2020

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released May 7, 2020
. . . from Rock Against Reality

Damon Norko . . . vocals
Jim Mcpherson . . . guitar
Mike Bell . . . bass, guitar
Darryl Dardenne . . . drums

lyrics by Damon Norko (c) 2020

based on an original composition by Richard Drews

arrangement by The Submensas

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The Submensas Baltimore, Maryland

A Damon Norko lyric-fueled rock band that inhabited the Baltimore-Washington area from 1983-93.

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