Smoking With The Devil - Learn To Entertain Yourselves
from Let's Get Lucid by Babal
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lyrics
Smoking with the Devil
Meet the devil; I’ve been smoking with the devil,
I’ve been digging in the bin, for the last fag I gave up I wanna drag…
In a fit of healthful vigor; scoured out now I draw breath, for a lungful of smoke
And I can’t see the joke, that the vapid vaporists do,
What are they missing? With their sucking and hissing; like taking a leak….without the pissing.
My joy is the intake, not the hit; searching for rollies in jumbled up shit!
But this is raving! This is nicotine craving; I’m smoking with the devil, I wanna meet the devil…….
As we lean into hell, with a smoke in our hands
And the devil lights up with a blaze of demands.
Burning our thoughts on a list of commands,
I just wanted fame! I just wanna blame!
Sweet suck succulent face of reddening shame
Walk the coals and feel the pain; you stepped on many
To get your share, no remorse, you didn’t care!
He draws the blood and sinks the bones.
Takes the chips out the mobile phones
Good for scrap, his other business…
Plus, car boots, fairs and garage sales,
Fetes, bazaars and cleaning houses,
Raising Cain and personal hell,
I’ve been smoking with the devil
And now the pay-off for his lordship, the devil,
The final level, success success
All the money, all the houses, all the botoxed spouses,
Now it seems I played for nothing
No better than I thought
Straight to hell
I’ve been smoking, I’ve been smoking, I’ve been smoking with the devil, with the devil, with the devil, with the devil…..
I’ve been smoking with the devil!!!!.....
Karen Langley 4/6/2015 & 7/3/23
Learn to entertain yourselves
Learn to entertain yourselves; before it’s too late,
Take a moment to release the gate that lets in all those neural sparks…. That follow paths, but leave no marks.
No-one can tell you what you’re thinking, all the CCTV and the eyes that see you from every angle of your world,
They can keep looking in, but they’ll never find a crack of light that takes them anywhere good!
When all their eyes are on seek and destroy, seek and destroy; not love!
Moving through time and space, a poetic shadowman leaving golden imprints all around,
What will you leave, what will you leave, what will you leave behind?
A pile of payment slips, some packages from Amazon, some hot tips for e-bay, some twitters, some posts, some blogs some suck-minded numbing dogs of intelligence!
That hack, hack, hack away all your real romance.
That small glance away, to a vista broad and green, to a vista broad and green,
Not like the rain forest, just your little piece of grass, at your window
Take off your shoes, go walk on the wet, wet, wet grass
And let this neural highway pass you by for a while,
Learn to entertain yourselves before it’s too late,
Lift your face away from the blu-ray and say hello; to the day, to the day, to the day……
We do not understand, we are dazzled and dormant, the knowledge will be discordant; we will see the music, we will hear the light!
Dazzling, dizzying, coming undone, dazzling, dizzying, coming undone, dazzling, dizzying, coming undone!......
The sound of love inherent; Divine rhapsodic fellowship;
We lay in lambent light, we lay in lambent light,
Who does not want us to hear?
Karen Langley
Meet the devil; I’ve been smoking with the devil,
I’ve been digging in the bin, for the last fag I gave up I wanna drag…
In a fit of healthful vigor; scoured out now I draw breath, for a lungful of smoke
And I can’t see the joke, that the vapid vaporists do,
What are they missing? With their sucking and hissing; like taking a leak….without the pissing.
My joy is the intake, not the hit; searching for rollies in jumbled up shit!
But this is raving! This is nicotine craving; I’m smoking with the devil, I wanna meet the devil…….
As we lean into hell, with a smoke in our hands
And the devil lights up with a blaze of demands.
Burning our thoughts on a list of commands,
I just wanted fame! I just wanna blame!
Sweet suck succulent face of reddening shame
Walk the coals and feel the pain; you stepped on many
To get your share, no remorse, you didn’t care!
He draws the blood and sinks the bones.
Takes the chips out the mobile phones
Good for scrap, his other business…
Plus, car boots, fairs and garage sales,
Fetes, bazaars and cleaning houses,
Raising Cain and personal hell,
I’ve been smoking with the devil
And now the pay-off for his lordship, the devil,
The final level, success success
All the money, all the houses, all the botoxed spouses,
Now it seems I played for nothing
No better than I thought
Straight to hell
I’ve been smoking, I’ve been smoking, I’ve been smoking with the devil, with the devil, with the devil, with the devil…..
I’ve been smoking with the devil!!!!.....
Karen Langley 4/6/2015 & 7/3/23
Learn to entertain yourselves
Learn to entertain yourselves; before it’s too late,
Take a moment to release the gate that lets in all those neural sparks…. That follow paths, but leave no marks.
No-one can tell you what you’re thinking, all the CCTV and the eyes that see you from every angle of your world,
They can keep looking in, but they’ll never find a crack of light that takes them anywhere good!
When all their eyes are on seek and destroy, seek and destroy; not love!
Moving through time and space, a poetic shadowman leaving golden imprints all around,
What will you leave, what will you leave, what will you leave behind?
A pile of payment slips, some packages from Amazon, some hot tips for e-bay, some twitters, some posts, some blogs some suck-minded numbing dogs of intelligence!
That hack, hack, hack away all your real romance.
That small glance away, to a vista broad and green, to a vista broad and green,
Not like the rain forest, just your little piece of grass, at your window
Take off your shoes, go walk on the wet, wet, wet grass
And let this neural highway pass you by for a while,
Learn to entertain yourselves before it’s too late,
Lift your face away from the blu-ray and say hello; to the day, to the day, to the day……
We do not understand, we are dazzled and dormant, the knowledge will be discordant; we will see the music, we will hear the light!
Dazzling, dizzying, coming undone, dazzling, dizzying, coming undone, dazzling, dizzying, coming undone!......
The sound of love inherent; Divine rhapsodic fellowship;
We lay in lambent light, we lay in lambent light,
Who does not want us to hear?
Karen Langley
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from Let's Get Lucid,
released November 27, 2023
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Babal Bristol, UK
One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter
overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap, and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and affects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around the truth
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