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I post David Cloud Berman lyrics & poetry every few hours (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains, Actual Air)

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · Oct 31

In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1h

Instead of time, there will be lateness
And let forever be delayed

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 4h

Moments can be monuments to you
If your life is interesting and true

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 7h

The snow falls down so beautiful and stupid
For the black silhoutte of Abraham Lincoln trees
The sky's low and grey like a Japanese table
And my horse's legs look like four brown shotguns

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 10h

All my happiness is gone

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 13h

I take decaf coffee
Two sugars and one cream
I don't see the use in staying
Up just to watch TV

I unplug all the neon
Turn the ringer off the phone
Throw my thoughts like tomahawks
Into this world which I disown

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 16h

I had this friend his name was Marc with a "c"
His sister was like the heat coming off the back of an old TV
Their folks were slain in their Red Boiling Springs home
It was the worst of the Lord, some of the worst of the Lord

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 19h

Suffering jukebox
In a happy town
You're over in the corner breakin' down

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 22h

First a look, then a spark, sound of Velcro in the dark
His heart is spinning like a bicycle wheel
She and he laid the stems down flat in the middle of a field

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

When she was gone, I was overcome
The simple fact left me stunned

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

Gold and Green
Red and Blue
Are the lights on the signs that line Charlotte avenue
From the corner window, I watch the falling white flakes
God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes

Animal shapes, animal shapes
God must be carving the clouds into animal shapes

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

Radio's on, feeling all right
Cruising the strip on a Saturday night
I smile and I wave and I hide all my pain
But the sign on my bumper gives me away

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna love you for a hundred years
Through suffering and celebration, dear
'Cause only you can make my lies come true
You can make lies real
And you can make me feel
Like drinking wine in the shade all afternoon

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

They see the things they need through the windows of a hatchback

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake
I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

Some kind of strange magic happens
When the city turns on her lights

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 1d

Mother and child with magazine
Into a story, into a dream

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

Well, there's trouble in the hall
And trouble up the stairs
And trouble in the trouble
That's troubling the air
Please don't say that my soul has died away

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

He almost walked into a wall
Oh, man, she was a sight to see
And at the party down the hall
He said, "you are the highest apple in the tree"

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

Pain works on a sliding scale
So does pleasure in a candy jail
True love doesn't come around anymore than fate allows
On a Monday in Fort Lauderdale

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

What is not but could be if
What could appear in the morning mist
With all associated risk
What is not but could be if

What was not but could have been
Was my obsession way back when
Now I just remember this
What is not but could be if

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

Four dogs in the distance
Each stands for a silence, yeah
Bluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar

I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
And hold the world to its word

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

I met failure in Australia
I fell ill in Illinois
I nearly lost my genitalia
To an anthill in Des Moines
I was so far gone in Fargo
South Dakota got annoyed
That’s the shit I'm talkin’ 'bout
When I talk to you about
Ceaseless feasts of schadenfreude

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

You took your love to the marketplace
In the wanton corner of a Western state
Where every other shopper is a basket case
Just realizing the horizon forms a frowning face

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David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 2d

So you wanna build an altar on a summer night
You wanna smoke the gel off a fentanyl patch
Aintcha heard the news? Adam and Eve were Jews
And I always loved you to the max

David Berman Bot @davidbermanbot.bsky.social · 3d

I've got that Friday night fever
Sometimes a man just needs a breather
She knows I love her and I need her
And I'm no cheater
I've just got that Friday night fever

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