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The Condition

from 1 by Paul Bergmann and the Fair Moans

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lyrics

I kept a boy in my closet
To take the pain away
Of being a man
So I could live like him

I fought a man half my size
To keep my pride
If words could kill, I’d change the ones
That took my life away

I felt my love was dying
So I wrote a song for it
I felt my hands get wiser
And I learned from them

I kept a skin under my bed
I would wear when things were bad
But now I don’t fight
When it rains, it pours, it rolls away
It rolls away

If my heart was strung on a spool
If I could never be a fool
The heartache I will always feel
If it’d only make me blue

I kept my mind for life’s sake
I gave my love for her sake
I feel my bones get older
Each and every day

I kept a boy in my closet
To take the pain away
So I could live like him

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from 1, released May 8, 2013

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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