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Permanent Fixture of Regret

from Movie Theatre Haiku by Chris Robley

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on the train, I’ve seen this movie before
its the one with the midwest football hero and the championship game when he scores
how dramatic, how cliché
and he gets the chick and she sucks his...
yeah, but they’ll cut that part out anyway

but its a picturesque burlesque

and I look out the window
a dozen silos poking up above the fog
and a man on a gravel path by the highway as he jogs in the after-dawn
all those silos are all the same
all painted red and filled with grain
and he’s running home to his ball and chain
run boy, run

cause its a picturesque burlesque

and all those silos are all the same but I count them
as they go flashing by I count them
one, two, three, four
why is everything a fucking bore?
and these photogenic freaks in their seats,
nervous as they’re drifting in and out of sleep
they’re all the same but I count them
they’re all the same but I count them

one by one and two by two
everybody’s got so much to prove
one by one and two by two
everybody’s got so much to lose
one by one and two by two
everybody thinks they’ve got the blues
one by one and two by two
they’re all the same but I count them

cause its a picturesque burlesque

and I’m no different
but I think I am
ah, but I know I’m not
but I don’t give a damn

a permanent fixture of regret

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from Movie Theatre Haiku, released January 15, 2009
words and music by chris robley
produced by chris robley, rob stroup, and jeff stuart saltzman
engineered by rob stroup and jeff stuart saltzman
mixed by jeff stuart saltzman
mastered by carl saff

musicians- chris robley (programming, guitars, piano, vocals, harmonica, synths, loops, bass, percussion), benny morrison (flutes), jeff stuart saltzman (omnichord)

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Chris Robley Lewiston, Maine

"Chris Robley is at the top of his game with his new work." - KCRW

Maine-based singer/songwriter and award-winning poet Chris Robley (formerly from Portland, Oregon) performs orchestral indie-pop and fractured folk reminiscent of John Lennon, John Vanderslice, Harry Nilsson, and Joe Henry.

His poetry has appeared in POETRY Magazine, Prairie Schooner, and many other journals. ... more

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