You Confuse Me

(Music and Lyrics: Sam Mullins)

I found you on a picket line one day
You were pushing paper for the ERA
Blue navy P coat, red bowling shoes
You were the fashion
You were the news

We used to see eye to eye
You used to know wrong from right
I thought I knew a friend from a foe
You really showed me I didn’t know

You confuse me
You turn me upside down
You’re logic defied
You’re Jekyll, then Hyde
You confuse me.

Then you found a Texas financier
And he said he could make you a millionaire
He said “Political pundits like a pretty face”
Former flower child enters the race

You confuse me
You turn me upside down
You’re logic defied
You’re Jekyll, then Hyde
You confuse me.

I saw you Friday on NBC
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday on channel 3.
Selling your life $10.95.
I was a footnote in a bundle of lies.

You confuse me
You turn me upside down
You’re logic defied
You’re Jekyll, then Hyde
You confuse me.

Slice of Life

(Music: Stu Mullins, John Abadi  Lyrics: Stu Mullins)

Listing our friendships in order of rank
Collecting our pennies to count at the bank
Paging through phone books and tearing out names
Random relays
Slide under light
Slice of Life

Catch me, I’m falling
Falling from grace
Slowly dying of boredom
Standing in place

Over and over and over again
Patterns appear and replay, then descend
Games and riddles, imaginary fears
Similar scale, different years.
Slide under light
Slice of Life
Help me to understand

Catch me, I’m falling
Falling from grace
Slowly dying of boredom
Trailing the pace

Catch me, I feel like falling
Swirling in time
Slowly perish from boredom
Standing in line