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Contradiction

from Whatever the Jungle by Eric Dahl

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Contradiction

© 1998 by Eric Dahl

Sometimes it seems like
you’re a part of myself, the part
that doesn’t even know it’s there.

If I was a high plateau cowboy,
working cattle at 7,000 feet,
in the high thin air we’d be thinking
bout the Dalai Lama, we’d be the only
ones on the range who didn’t eat meat.

Contradiction, hey that’s no problem,
I got two sides to my brain,
one side knows exactly what it’s doing,
but it’s the other side keeps me sane.

You should be
a samurai messiah,
walking into battle
carrying a bamboo stick.
You could teach everyone
how to cut their own demons to pieces,
wearing a T-shirt that says
oppression is just plain sick.

Contradiction, hey that’s no problem,
I got two sides to my brain,
one side knows exactly what it’s doing,
but it’s the other side keeps me sane.

You’re not much of one for asking,
eye contact and you pull me
onto the floor,
so serious we can’t stop laughing,
inside your armor there’s a waterfall,
outside the walls there’s an open shore.

Contradiction, hey that’s no problem,
I got two sides to my brain,
one side knows exactly what it’s doing,
but it’s the other side keeps me sane.

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from Whatever the Jungle, released July 1, 1998

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Eric Dahl Seattle, Washington

His music ranges from acoustic neo-rockabilly to thoughtful and reflective with a voice somewhere between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed.

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