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Narrative Life

from Dilettante by Mary Knapp / Toot Sweet

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lyrics

What is life without a narrative?
Just a series of imperatives
What is art without a narrative?
What is the heart but a beating imperative?

Life pulses under dim light
Steady steps at my tail
Inside me there’s muscle pumping its chest
I’ll kick your ass to the curb it says
This is the big picture, the pulse
But my heart is growing numb
Where’s youth for the old?
There’s too much youth for the young
Ah-ah ah-ah ah-ah ah-ah ah-ah

I’m joining the parade
Beat beat again
Beat beat again
Life is all the same
Beat beat again
It’s all the same

(Life is all the same, life is all the same you see)
(It’s just a parade, it’s just a parade you see)

Staring at your reflection in the mirror
Seeing something you hold dear
But it’s hard to look at it
Cuz you start to see the wear
But you like it too
Cuz you’re a little refined
And you didn’t even have to try
Life just happened
The narrative life
Driving tracks across your face
Giving life’s journey not time,
But depth and space

I’ve got no tales to tell
It’s all imprinted on my skin
No ideologies to sell
My truth is pulsing from within

I’m joining the parade
Beat beat again
Beat beat again

I’m joining the parade
Beat beat again
I’m joining the parade
Beat beat again

I’m joining the parade
Beat beat again

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from Dilettante, released March 25, 2016
music & lyrics by Mary Spencer Knapp © 2016
Produced by Oliver Ignatius at Mama Coco's Funky Kitchen 2015
Mary Knapp - vocals, piano
Tyler Kaneshiro - synth
Doug Berns - bass, guitar
Javier Ramos - drums, percussion
Lauren Santiago and Lucy Breidenthal - backing vocals

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