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Brave Ink

from Brave Ink by Patient Barney Penrose

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Thirteen black notebooks
Full of smeared sketches
Brave ink never runs.
Thirteen black notebooks
Full of smeared sketches
Brave ink never runs.
Damn the letting go
Damn the letting go
Is always the hard part for us.
Don't torture yourself,
Don't torture your self for this, love,
For this "love".

Ten pounds of cheap
Flattened out cardboard
And packing tape in the trunk.
Call it a premonition
Call it faith in bad luck.
Ten pounds of cheap
Flattened out cardboard
And packing tape in the trunk.
I got nowhere to go,
I got nowhere to go no but up.

Burn all my poems
Outside the dog park
Don't spare a single one.
Burn all my poems
Outside the dog park
Don't spare a single one.
Damn the letting go
Damn the letting go
Is always the hard part for us.
Don't torture yourself,
Don't torture your self for this, love,
For this "love".

Invite me out of pity
Then send me home early
From the bonfire you planned all month.
I fell off the blue station wagon
With a cartoonish case of hiccups.
Invite me out of pity
Then send me home early
From the bonfire you planned all month.
I can't sleep I can't sleep
I can't seem to wake myself up.

In every story
I spun around us
You were the fortunate one.
In every story
I spun around us
You were the fortunate one.
Damn the letting go
Damn the letting go
Is always the hard part for us.
Don't torture yourself,
Don't torture your self for this, love,
For this "love".

Let's shoot all the messengers
Steal all the bad news
And spin it until it suits us
Let's sell batteries under the boardwalk
When the hurricanes come.
Let's shoot all the messengers
Steal all the bad news
And spin it until it suits us
I tell myself that
What you tell your friends
Doesn't matter too much.

Thirteen black notebooks
Full of smeared sketches
Brave ink never runs.
Thirteen black notebooks
Full of smeared sketches
Brave ink never runs.
Damn the letting go
Damn the letting go
Is always the hard part for us.
Don't torture yourself,
Don't torture your self for this, love,
For this "love".

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from Brave Ink, released April 12, 2014

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Patient Barney Penrose Richmond, Virginia

"As a lyricist, Patient Barney Penrose shares a vividness with Matt Berninger of The National, expressing himself with melancholic, literate concision. These are lyrics that read well without a melody. An extension of an obvious literary talent, they embellish his dulcet arrangements."

Julian Belvedere, HY.GEN.IC London
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