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Grover Cleveland

from Untruth by Darth Nater

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august
darts in the garage
pop in mason jars
pinky fingers tangled
in python strangling trust
and in a sudden gust
of flying dust and hormone soaked debris
you left me on the balcony
cabbage green and lifeless as a bust

i know my life won’t go exactly as i planned
i know my feeble deeds can’t stand up to your achievements
i’m unsure of the specifics, i don’t own a tweed jacket, i’m no historian
i’m disproductive and unglorious
but what i know is you were from buffalo and your name was grover cleveland

yeah, they built a statue of you and the plaque beneath reads grover cleveland
they built a high school on the west side, and the sign above reads grover cleveland
they built a highway on the tail end of route 63 between eggert and main and they named it grover cleveland
i wrote a song for all the promises i break and i called it grover cleveland

your legacy’s been whitewashed
immortalized in bronze
it looks like it cost a whole lot
but you’ll still rust and i’ll still rot
your buddy millard fillmore sits across the stairway
two lovers intertwined flank his base
whispering sweet nothings locked in glacial embrace
heaven knows i’m clinical now
invisible, divisible, hospitable now!
but somehow you open up your mouth
your metal lips split and a voice pours out
believe you me, kid
the media spins facts so fast you need a dramamine
twists em and dips em in kerosene
they unleash the disease and sell ya the vaccine

i’ll never hurt myself or anyone else ever again
i swear i’ll be a better friend
i’ll have your money by tomorrow
and from this day forward, you will be my number one priority
i’m going to donate 10% of my paycheck to the conservation efforts of the giant panda
i’m going to plant a tree
i’m going to show mercy to the next spider i see
i promise to become the very best i can be
i promise to never get angry and leave
i promise to always stand up for the weak
i promise the end will justify the means

i remember reading nietzsche in english 301
metaphors are lies, words are lies, all language is a lie
and at the time i found him long-winded and pretentious
but now that i am long-winded and pretentious, i think he might have been right
when i die and pass to the other side
every person i’ve ever let down will be laid out on a giant cosmic dartboard
you will be the double bullseye and i will be the triple twenty
and i will hurl the shards of every promise i’ve ever broken
for all eternity

i spit a bitter mix of fact and fiction
explicit diction
cause i’m fucking terrified that you won’t be impressed by my lyrics
self-indulgent muck
precocious, genius kind of stuff
sometimes i forget which lines i’ve lived and which i completely made up

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from Untruth, released December 31, 2019
christian bowman - drums
nate noworyta - vocals, guitars

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Darth Nater Buffalo, New York

Funny songs. Sad songs. Funny, sad songs.

Darth Nater is the solo project of Buffalo-based musician Nate Noworyta.

Lyrically dense story-songs filled with detailed imagery and characters. Musically rooted in folk and indie rock. ... more

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