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Not My Circus Not My Monkeys

from UNCLE! by Pugs & Crows

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NOT MY CIRCUS NOT MY MONKEYS


all rise
to the sight of your only sun
not the one that you've been taking for granted
but the one that brought the light into the room

one light
both sides
all along
one big light and all the others you left on

draining the dark
then draining into dark.

hard on you
and it’s hard on your family too

only children
standing silence
shopping for nothing
milling about
distant cousins
miles apart

single mother
standing under your understanding brother
no horizons
freedoms frozen
yet somehow the same path gets chosen

inmates complain while minds combine
since split
abandoned companion
just couldn't commit
fits like shit
but no one's there to fix it

who tied you to it?




such conditions
this disposition
ten thousand arms and no ammunition
reaching for relief

hard on you
yes, hard on your family now too

better together
better because of you
better than when we met
even better than we both knew

but then you moved
so we moved too
and no one pushes through like you used to

this is a circus
these are your monkeys too
crying sirens
always ambulating through

holding you
not holding you down
with the love we’re no longer seeing

blinding
such social eyes
at the rise of your only son

not the one that’s come undone
lost it’s light
shaking from the trees
setting free
set free

this scenery
it doesn’t change with you here next to me
buzz words like community
this family no longer needs to learn to be
it needs to learn to see



this is a circus
these are your monkeys too
crying sirens
always ambulating through

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from UNCLE!, released September 6, 2018
Tony Wilson - second guitar

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